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Researchers devise aflatoxin test kit for Kenyan farmers
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- Published on Wednesday, 16 July 2014 10:39
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Researchers at Egerton University in Kenya have collaborated with the University of Colorado to develop a simple aflatoxin kit that will help farmers in the field control food poisoning
The project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has allowed researchers to create a simple kit which will allow farmers to carry out tests on their grains before marketing to ascertain quality.
“The procedure involves crushing grains and then mixing with ethanol.
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New maize varieties given approval in Kenya
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- Published on Wednesday, 16 July 2014 10:35
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The Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) has approved three new maize varieties that are resistant to the deadly necrosis disease
The Tumaini 1 variety, also known as Type Wei 101, will soon be released to Kenyan farmers and has been deemed suitable to farmers in Bomet, Nakuru and Narok counties as well as areas in the lower eastern part of the East African country.
KEPHIS has bred the new variety in collaboration with the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI),
Igniting agricultural growth and transformation in Africa
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- Published on Monday, 30 June 2014 06:25
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At the African Union (AU) summit in Maputo, Mozambique in 2003, African Heads of State and Government made a resolute and resounding commitment to tackle food insecurity and to accelerate growth of the continent’s food, agriculture and rural sectors.
Through the landmark Maputo Declaration, they adopted the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) as their continent-wide blueprint for agriculture, pledging to allocate at least 10 per cent of national budgets to agriculture,
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A healthy, peaceful and secure Africa is now within our grasp
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- Published on Monday, 30 June 2014 06:22
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Judging from the daily outpouring of commentary, opinions and reports, you would think that there were two African continents. One of them is the new land of opportunity, with seven of the world's 10 fastest-growing economies, offering limitless possibilities to investors. There is, however, this other image: a starving and hopeless continent, hungry and poor, corrupt and prey to foreign exploiters.
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