Food security: Agriculture CS calls for private-public alliance


[Source: Daily Nation, by Brian Okinda]

Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya has appealed for private sector support for smallholder farmers in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The CS Tuesday urged private businesses to help boost local production of farm inputs and provision of extension and training to farmers.

He spoke in Nairobi as he flagged off 13,000 metric tonnes of fertiliser donated by Norwegian fertiliser firm, Yara East Africa, to cushion 80,000 smallholder farmers in 22 counties against the effects of the pandemic…

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