NAFIS

You will be able to access all Nafis  information using your mobile phone by calling the Nafis access number 020-5008890, and then following the direction you will hear. NAFIS will wellcome you to the service which is available in both English and Kiswahili. When you call, follow the easy step by step voice prompt menu [...]

Download full report in English via this link: Horticulture in Makueni; Success of highly skilled human resource is a major fact to the success of Agriculture

Published by New Agriculturalist:

Date: December 2011

Bright future for Agricultural Extension:
A change of mindset among extension agents and departments is needed. If agricultural extension is in its death throes, as some believe, it’s not dying quietly. Indeed, new models of funding, public-private partnerships and a much broader concept of what extension should entail are encouraging many [...]

National Farmers’ Information service (NAFIS) has been working for several years to develop methods of using ICT to reinforce extension services and improve farming in Kenya. NAFIS website re-launched early this year in March 2011 and which provides information for farmers in Kenya.
The themes covered on the site relate to both general and more specific [...]

Published on 03/09/2011 by the Standard Newspaper
By Patrick Ajwang’
Many Kenyans with basic formal education loiter in urban centres, looking for increasingly elusive factory or office jobs.
Many graduates from tertiary institutions are functionally unemployed, underemployed or misplaced (doing jobs they have not trained for), yet we live in country where 46 per cent of the population [...]

From:  Public Relations Office
Date:     8th, August 2011.
Ref: MOA/PCU/MR/005/017/32
By Edna Opicho/Sammy Wekesa.
The Government’s move to sensitize More than 45 farmers from Lunglunga division in Msambweni District Coast province the need to embrace farming as a business through horticulture has borne some fruits, as they are reaping from vegetable farming despite the harsh weather conditions experienced [...]

National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) was founded in 1939 as a statutory body charged with controlling, managing and purchasing of maize and other scheduled agricultural produce on behalf of the government. Since then, its mandate which had largely been monopolistic was unchanged until 1993 when the grain sub-sector was liberalized and new players who [...]

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The Grain Amaranth farmers in Western Kenya appeals for markets;
To learn how to grow Grain Amaranth from Nafis, Click here.

Through National Agriculture and Extension programme (NALEP), the livestock extension officers has over the years since the inception of the project in the year 2000(phase 1) promoted rabbit rearing as a market oriented enterprise that can earn farmers a high return.
Though initially the opportunities were reluctantly picked, today majority of the farmers have picked the [...]