By Elizabeth Angira
Worth Noting:
- Speaking at Agricultural Training Center (ATC) during the training with the administrators, Kisii central deputy county commissioner Wilberforce Kilonzo, said that the registration will help the government to know the type of crops the framers are growing and the total acreage.
- Kilonzo said that farmers should register and provide the required information about their farms to ensure the accuracy on the total number of farmers and their farm acreage.
- Kilonzo said that the initiative will also assist the famers not to be coned from brokers who sell the fertilizers at high price.
Registration of farmers on subsidized fertilizers has kicked off at Kisii County as chiefs directed to ensure that every farmer has been registered.
The exercise is aimed at creating a digitized national farmer register that will identify imposters and rogue traders who have been exploiting farmers by accessing and reselling the subsided fertilizers at high prices.
Speaking at Agricultural Training Center (ATC) during the training with the administrators, Kisii central deputy county commissioner Wilberforce Kilonzo, said that the registration will help the government to know the type of crops the framers are growing and the total acreage.
Kilonzo said that farmers should register and provide the required information about their farms to ensure the accuracy on the total number of farmers and their farm acreage.
Kilonzo said that the initiative will also assist the famers not to be coned from brokers who sell the fertilizers at high price.
“The initiative is good to the farmers so that they can benefit from subsidized fertilizers,” he said.
He said that the initiative will help relieve farmers from the high cost production and allow them to produce more food.
He said that the administrators will register thee farmers at their offices so that they can capture all the farmers.
During the training the chiefs and their assistants were issued with tablets that will assist them to document the information.
According to him, majority of the farmers they do not apply the quality fertilizers on their farms due to high cost and others being conned by brokers who hike prices hence leads to low yields .
“Due to this that is why the government has chipped in to save the farmers from brokers,” he said.
He cited that the subsidized fertilizers will enable farmers to produce high quality of farm produce to assist the government in food security and also it will reduce food prices.
However, he challenged youths to invest in agriculture as a measure to reduce growing youth unemployment in the country and to sustain their economic life.
Kilonzo said that it is important to engage youths in productive enterprises like agriculture and agribusiness.
“Most of the youths tend to think that farming is for the elderly persons, and they tend to shun it due to some challenges of farm inputs, “he cited.
He urged farmers to register at their area chiefs or their assistant’s chiefs to benefit from subsidized fertilizers.
Elizabeth Angira is a trailblazing climate journalist whose work bridges science, policy, and human impact. As Senior Climate Reporter at The Mount Kenya Times, she leads in-depth coverage on climate resilience, energy innovation, and sustainability across East Africa and beyond. Her storytelling has earned international acclaim, including a third-place win for “The Best Energy Story in Foreign Media” by the Global Energy Association in Moscow.
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