Women urged to start cottage industries

Women in Taita-Taveta County have been challenged to engage in agribusiness ventures to boost their family incomes. Speaking in a two-day event in Voi Town, during horticultural production workshop sponsored by UNDP, agribusiness specialist and trainer Janey Oyuke said the sector is key to poverty alleviation in rural families. "When we went to Israel, we discovered that women were doing much better in agribusiness enterprises than us in Kenya, despite the country is a desert," said Ms Oyuke. She pointed out that cottage industries were key to the realisation of Vision 2030 and asked women in the county to form organised groups and begin small cottage industries for products such as aloe vera and horticultural produce. The event was closed by governor John Mruttu.