Kalro to develop digital soil fertility maps in bid to boost food security

Agripreneurs engaged by Murang'a county government during training on soil sampling project spearheaded by Kalro at Murang'a University of Technology. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard]

A project aimed at focusing on increasing food production across the country targets to collect 77,969 soil samples from 45 counties.

The project funded by the World Bank, the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (Kalro) will collaborate with county governments to develop digital soil fertility maps.