Governors from the Mt Kenya region have dismissed a recent report from Egerton University that indicates that farmers used harmful pesticides in their potato farming.
The leaders, led by Nyeri County Governor Dr Mutahi Kahiga, termed the research titled 'Influence of On-farm Pesticide Practices and Processing Methods on Pesticide Residue Levels in Potato Tubers in Nyandarua County, Kenya', as 'unfounded rumours' about Nyandarua's cash crop. "Let us stop making unconfirmed rumours about Mt Kenya, and it is very unfortunate that issues of potatoes are splashed all over the newspapers.
Even the people who are talking about it even think potatoes grow from the sky," Kaiga, while speaking at the Nanyuki Agricultural Show, said.
Nyandarua Governor Dr Kiarie Badilisha decried that the potato farmers in his county were under threat and they were not consulted when the research was being conducted.
