Who can share the seed? Like the climate change and serious injuries hurt Kenyan farmers, it is a growing question

Kikuyu, Kenya (AP) – Captured in a paved, defects of Kikuyu’s Central Kenya, the National Seed Bank is the country’s agricultural protection. Within two chilly’s government structure rooms, more than 50,000 species of seed are amended and stored.

The bank was established in 1988 after noticing that some traditional seed types were lost, which happens the most common climate change. It aims to save the seeds of research and rehabilitation on farms.

“We see that some of the traditional varieties we left and took advantage of climate change, so it was in the sides of the department,” the Director of Movuzi research works, Desserio Nyomo, referring to the hybrid seed. purchased all the planting period.

He said some bank seeds were also found to resist the disease and insects and were not very popular.

This Given Hope to A Country That Heavely On Rain-Fed Agriculture Instead, Leaving It More Vulnerable to Climate Shocks Like Dr. Sike Drought. The sector offers a third of the GDP’s third party.

Kenya is not alone in dealing with food safety pressure. According to the UN and Agriculture’s food reports in 2023, over a thousand million people in the African continent are unable to afford a healthy diet, and the number of hungry people is increasing.

But in Kenya, another problem arose. Farmers in just months ago losing thousands of shillings (tens of thousands of dollars) after planting index seeds purchased independent merchants.

Kenya authorities have agreed that the seed industry is serious.

During the first-characteristics of the country of country of the international character in August, agricultural secretary, agricultural Minister, African Minister said a limited position to produce certified Seeds.

The head of the Eastern Africa Farmers Federation, Stephen Muchi, said the vigor in Kenya is good, and believes the main reason for breeding errors and the propagation program.

However, some farmers say that efforts to improve the Kenya Seed Program Him to be restricted about seed sharing, which millions of farmers made the entire planting cost.

The government said the law was designed to prevent districted seed broadcasts and prevent farmers from more than a dozen farmers and say it was so expensive for the new seed. The following hearing in this case is in March.

Francis Nyri is one of the farmers who coped the case. He runs a traditional day bank in a local farm on his five-acre in the Semi-Arid Gilgic area available for 120 kilometers (74 km) from the capital, Nairobi.

Her job has become a learner’s learning world who have found disappointing crops from hybrid roofs.

“We have seen that the indigenous seeds are strong and do better in our area even when there is a reduced rain,” he tells the debate.

He discusses his zeal in saving seeds that uses traditional ways such as ash wood – which believes the pots – or keep them pottery. Emphasis on the use of resources at no cost.

The farmer Maximilla, who plowing the Sorghum’s Sorghum west of KreIs, said traditional crops provide a food safety solution. It is not part of the challenge of legal but interacted with the Kenya Assignment called The SEMBER SVER NETWORK.

However, “instead of our government is encouraging those who offer solutions by using traditional crops, they are now cracked down to those who join the seed in the community,” he said.

The seed sharing in Kenya can bring two years in prison, a fine up to 1 million Kenya Shillings ($ 7,700), or both. No farmer has been liable.

The National Seent Bank time to distribute some of its collections to farmers without the expense hoping that long-term types in local situations will be more powerful.

Director, Nyocongo, said farmers could pay farm input as the fertilizer needed in the hybrid seeds is better to grow traditional varieties.

“It would be wrong with farmers, especially in the side households, starting to think that trading traditional interest is also in another seed,” he said. “Farther from it, because some traditional kinds have accepted local conditions so they are very strong.”

There was no bronze court farmers court in the prevention of seed.

Dutch-Based Climate’s President Moves NEXProfit Global Developiest Supologic Center, Patrick V. Verkooijn, said Governments can invest in community-based seed programs to maintain diversity.

“Traditional crops provide many benefits, in particular genealogies, which helping farmers to adapt to climate change, and treat poor soil fertility. However, they also come to challenges, as low-scanning and disease,” he said.

Kenya Seeders of Traditional Seed As IIRI said the low yields and new insects and diseases occurred only when a variety of creative organization was taken.

“The reason why they have no indigenousness is a climate change and diseases from which they came from,” said Mbiri.

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