Sorghum farmers including people leaving with disabilities in Homa Bay and Migori counties on June 30, 2023 being taken through specialized training in cultivating optimal varieties of sorghum. [Caleb Kingwara, Standard]

Farmers need to embrace irrigation and growing resilient crops such as cassava, sweet potato, finger millet, and sorghum, as part of climate-smart agriculture.

According to former Agriculture Principal Secretary, Professor Hamadi Boga, who is now Vice President in charge of Programme Delivery at AGRA, Africa has 60 per cent of arable land, which can feed the entire world.

Despite this, he says, the continent suffers food deficit. Professor Boga says by 2030 Africa, will have to feed additional 300 million people, which is why there is a need to end hunger in the continent.

He reveals that Kenya produces 44 million bags of maize annually against the 50 million bags demand, thus forcing the government to import approximately 10 million bags every year to fill the gap.

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