JKUAT and Bayer unveil initiative to help small scale farmers

JKUAT-students-performing-a-task-to-demonstrate-their-innovation-knack. [Courtesy]

The Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and the Bayer East Africa Limited, have launched an innovation initiative to empower students to come up with ideas that will provide innovative solutions to challenges facing smallholder farmers in the county’s agricultural sector.

Under the initiative, JKUAT students will be required to compete and come up with cutting edge innovative ideas that can be implemented in the agriculture sector. The competition, dubbed: Bayer Innovation Competition will sponsor students through the implementation of the best winning idea in the fields that address challenges faced by small holder farmers in the food security value chain such as: access to credit, availability of markets, crop protection and farming methods. The initiative will also avail industrial attachment opportunities in Bayer Headquarters in Germany.