Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO), in partnership with the National Agricultural Value Chain Development Project (NAVCDP) Kajiado and the County Government of Kajiado, has trained agripreneurs and agricultural extension officers in Isinya on digital soil fertility mapping.
While addressing the media after the training, Lucas Tanui, a research officer in KALRO, said that research has shown soil fertility levels have been declining, and this affects the farmers as production goes down, which impacts negatively on food and nutrition security, consecutively affecting the farmers' income and their livelihood.
He emphasized that both crop and livestock production is declining despite farmers using fertilisers because of the use of wrong fertilisers for given soils, thus affecting pH and acidity levels.
He revealed that the project plans to pilot soil sampling and testing in 1861 sites across the 25 wards within Kajiado, with an average of about 100 sites per ward.
