Nyamira county residents have been encouraged to properly utilise their land to boost food security and grow the economy.
Nyamira County Commissioner Josephine Onunga urged them to maximise the use of their land to produce more agricultural products for export as a good source of self-employment and county development.
During an interview at Kisii agricultural show grounds on Thursday, she called on all the youths to embrace agriculture as it will commit them positively and fetch income.
She also attributed the lifestyle diseases like obesity, cancers, High blood pressure and ulcers to lack of eating green vegetables and copying of the western culture.
“We are experiencing these lifestyle diseases because we have adopted the western lifestyles and we have avoided taking greens which our fathers consumed in their diets thus avoiding health complications,” Onunga said.
Vegetables, she said, were a good source of vitamins. She encouraged the residents to embrace smart farming.
With the fertile land in the county farmers in the area can make good money without much struggle, she noted.