A tissue culture project being sponsored by Egerton University department of crops and horticulture and the Nanjing Agricultural University of China will help boost food crop production and fight poverty in rural parts of Nakuru County.
The co-coordinator of the project, Prof. Cheng Wu revealed this on Monday in an interview with our reporter in his office at Njoro main campus.
Prof.Wu said that the project will involve a direct interaction and organized workshops with local farmers on tissue cultured plants benefits in crop production.
He noted that climatic changes and economic strains in most African countries calls for flexibility and innovations in food production, by applying agricultural technology skills.
He added that tissue culture ensures increased crop production in quantity and quality, as well as reduced time span and crop diseases.
“Research has shown that there is a need for providing flexibility in food production to fight the challenges of climatic changes that adversely affect food production and reduces food security strength especially in developing nations of the world. Tissue culture is on e of the measures that ought to be embraced,’’ said Prof.Wu.
He said that food crop and fruits like bananas, tomatoes, onions, oranges, beans, maize among others are vulnerable to climatic changes conditions, and ought to be subjected to new agricultural technologies in order to enhance their productivity.