Background

 

Mbeere Sub-County is a low semi-arid zone of Kenya that is covered by three agro-ecological zones; the marginal cotton zone (LM4); the lower midland livestock-millet zone (LM5); and the lowland livestock millet zone (L5). Green grams, cow peas and sorghum play the dual role of food and cash crops. Maize does not perform well. There is potential for increased production of these crops especially using drought tolerant seeds developed by the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) and other partners...read more