A climate action initiative that focuses on supporting smallholder farmers to adopt sustainable agricultural practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve soil health, while simultaneously enhancing crop yields and farmer incomes has been launched in Nakuru.
Through the initiative dubbed 'Cropland Carbon Farming project' farmers across all the eleven sub-counties are being equipped with skills to embrace new agricultural techniques in a bid to avoid losses as a result of climate change as well as to address issues of food security.
The initiative is a joint venture of the County Government of Nakuru, Cereal Growers Association- Farm to Market Alliance (CGA- FtMA) and Boomitra.
County Executive Committee Member (CECM) for Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock Leonard Bor indicated that the project is empowering farmers to participate in the carbon market by sequestering carbon in their soils through techniques such as crop rotation and cover cropping, and reduced tillage.
