Rice farmers in Nyando affected by floods to get seeds worth Sh6m


[Source: Daily Nation, by Elizabeth Ojina]

Rice farmers in Nyando, Kisumu County will benefit from 22.4 tonnes of seeds worth Sh6 million for the current planting season.

This comes as a relief to the rice growers who recently incurred losses estimated at Sh400 million after River Nyando bursts its banks causing devastating floods which destroyed 7,500 acres of paddy.

Kisumu Agriculture CEC Gilchrist Okuom told the Nation that the county government has acquired hybrid seeds from…

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