Kisumu County government has been challenged to provide agricultural empowerment to residents so as to provide food security in the lakeside region.
Kisumu Youth Procurement Elites Chairman Fleming Ooko asked Ranguma to organise forums aimed at sensitising and creating public awareness to farmers in the county.
“The county government should sensitise our locals on modern ways of practicing commercial agriculture so that they can maximize on yielding more production,” said Ooko.
“The county government should also sensitize the locals on the importance of commercial farming that goes hand in hand with subsistence farming,” added Ooko.
Kisumu City Residence Voice Association Chairman Audi Ogada also told our reporter that Kisumu needed to provide more food that can also be exported to other counties.
“We import our eggs from Uganda, maize from Kitale and chicken from Rift Valley. As a county, we need to also contribute heavily in the food market by producing more food to other counties,” said Ogada.
Alive Today Youth Group Chairman Robert Otieno asked farmers from the lakeside county to form Sacco’s and associations that can help them access funds from the county government and also loans from banks.
He also challenged the farmers to practice crop rotation to avoid depletion of mineral resources from their land.
Speaking after a church service at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Milimani, House Minority leader Edwin Anayo asked the county government to provide tractors to farmers at affordable rates to enable them plough their huge tracts of land efficiently.