College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences

Stephen Waitugi says tomato farming is of a significant economic importance in Kenya as it is one of the key enterprises among small-holder farmers. However, despite the economic importance, the sector still faces numerous challenges. This includes agronomic challenges such as pests and diseases and physiological disorders, poor post-harvest technologies and institutional constraints such as lack of access to credit and poorly organized rural and urban market infrastructures that permit unpredictable price fluctuation.

This study analyzes the impact of rice importation on the exchange rate, inflation, and GDP in Liberia. It seeks to unearth the contribution of rice importation to the economic perils facing the country, which is visible by the continuous depreciation of the country’s currency, the continuous rising of the general price level, and the slum in the total output of the country.

Agricultural production in Africa is mainly rain fed and highly vulnerable to climate change and variability. Extreme weather events like droughts, floods and high temperatures affect agricultural production and food security. Use of climate information services can have positive effect on agricultural yields, household incomes, food security, poverty reduction and enhance resilience against climate risks.

Dr. Joseph Ssekandi is an alumni of University of Nairobi who was supervised by Prof John Mburu , the chairman of the Department of Agricultural Economics.Dr.

Twiga is a company that creates technology platforms for aiding agricultural farmers to market tomatoes, potatoes, onions, watermelon and bananas by linking them to the market or buying their products and sell them to small scale vendors in the market. It mainly operates in the following counties; Nairobi, Machakos and Kiambu. Also Twiga Foods stores and grade the agricultural produce from farmers before they market them.

The agricultural sector is faced with productivity differentials among male, female and jointly managed plots especially in developing countries, which affect technical efficiency (TE). In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) gender productivity differentials vary between 4 and 40%, this negatively affects the overall agricultural output both at the household and national level.

The study sought to determine the economic efficiency of cassava production in two counties, Bomi and Nimba. Economic efficiency is the ability for farmers to produce using all available inputs properly and at the lowest possible cost (or at the highest possible revenue). Cassava is largely cultivated in Nimba and locally processed largely in Bomi. The two counties are more than 300km apart, with Nimba in the Northeast and Bomi in the Northwest of Liberia.

Effective communication channels have played an imperative role in the dissemination of critical information to farmers. There are modern information sources and media channels disseminating information on farming activities and practices in Kenya, however, dismal attention has been given to the effectiveness of such information communication channels in disseminating information to farmers, especially on Fall Armyworms (FAW).

Gender research and training is vital because sex, love, care, and reproduction are basic dimensions in life, and yet, the meaning of gender is contested.

Owing to that, lecturers from the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences (CAVS) conducted gender analysis trainng to the postgraduate students and some of their supervisors.