Lewis, J. E., Rowland, J., and Nadeau, A., 1998, Estimating maize production in Kenya using NDVI: some statistical considerations. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 19, 2609-2617.LEWIS J E. Estimating maize production in Kenya using NDVI: some statistical considerations[J]. Int J ...
White maize is one of the staple foods of Kenyans, but the country's production can’t meet its population growth. In addition the region is facing food shortages due to decreasing production caused by the recent drought in the Horn of Africa, said David Mburu, principal of the College of...
"The production of other food crops such as banana, sorghum, cowpeas, green gram and root crops also recorded a slight drop," he added. The number of people affected by food insecurity has risen to about 3.5 million, with majority of them found in the arid and semi-arid areas (ASALs)...
The pest, which was first detected in Kenya in March last year, contributed to decline in maize production, from over 40 million bags production a year to 32 million, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. Farmers last year spent huge amounts of money fighting the pest with the government...
Kenya requires a well-resourced national master plan on how to modernise maize production and marketing systems to actualise national self-sufficiency to minimise dependence on imports, while ensuring sufficient returns for all value chain players, especially the farmer. ...
Aggregate Supply Response to Price Incentives: The Case of Smallholder Maize Production in Kenya Increased aggregate supply response has been one of the food policy objectives of the government of Kenya. Increased supply response enhances food security... LO Mose,K Burger,A Kuvyenhoven 被引量: ...
Some Economic Aspects Of Current Production, Marketing And Distribution Policies Of Maize In Kenya And A Proposed Framework For Generating Information On Its Demand And Supply 来自 ideas.repec.org 喜欢 0 阅读量: 22 作者: FE Chege 摘要: Maize is one of the most important crops grown in Kenya...
The meaning of MAIZE is a tall annual cereal grass (Zea mays) originally domesticated in Mexico and widely grown for its large elongated ears of starchy seeds : corn. How to use maize in a sentence.
Phosphorus, nitrogen and Striga hermonthica are the major constraints to maize production in the Nyanza Province of Kenya. Field trials were conducted on-farm in Nyanza Province to investigate the effects of phosphate fertilizers and manure on maize yields. The experimental design was a Randomized...
Bernard Moina, an agricultural extension officer in Kitale, Kenya's breadbasket acknowledged that the number of young people farming maize in the region is negligible. "I can confidently say that maize has remained an old peoples' crop. Most of those growing the crop are aged from 45 and beyo...