The first case of COVID-19 was detected in Kenya in early March 2020. After the government embarked on mass testing in April, the number of daily cases rose rapidly reaching as high as 49 by May 2020. The government also came up with various mitigating measures including restricted movement, such as the dusk to dawn curfew, while allowing transportation of agricultural products during the day.

Kollie,a postgraduate student in the department has in his latest conference paper titled " Economic efficiency of Cassava production in Liberia using an output-oriented approach" been rejoicing for having his paper presented at the International (digital) Conference on Precision and Food Waste on April 28, 2020.View his conference paper in the attachment provided below. 

The Department of Agricultural Economics has once again made the entire University of Nairobi community proud.This is because ten out of the top five hundred scholars and researchers abstracted under  university of Nairobi by the SciVal perfomance ranking tool come from the Department of Agricultural Economics.