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#UPDATE The project has purchased eleven portable threshers to be used for enhancing the quality of grain reaching markets. They can thresh & clean 4 to 7 bags of grain per hour. The threshers are made with three different sieves to make it possible to thresh #sorghum and #millet

Production of groundnuts has tripled in the last three years after the start of #AVCD program from the initial 600 acres to at least 2,000 acres under cultivation in #ElgeyoMarakwet. AVCD has also supported the farmers to build an aggregation store in Kapkayo market center

@WorldBank doubles funding to $200 billion to tackle #climatechange ahead of UN summit The World Bank’s move coincided with a UN climate summit meeting of some 200 nations in Poland. hindustantimes.com/world-news/wor… @ICRISAT @ICRISATESA @IcrisatW @CGIARclimate @FAO @UNFCCC @UNEnvironment

#DYK Striga is a parasitic weed that constrains the growth of cereals in the sub humid areas of Africa. The weed can be managed by hand pulling, weeding on time, inter-cropping with legumes like groundnuts, use of herbicide 2-4 D,field sanitation and deep ploughing.

Over 6000 small holder farmers have been linked to buyers by the #AVCD program in the six mandate counties. The project has been working with aggregators in Kenya and has established a total of 38 aggregation centers

Benson Kyalo a fish farmer uses #sorghum grain as the raw material for making fish feed for the Catfish and Tilapia that he rears on his farm in Makueni County. He believes using sorghum improves profit margins due to lower feed production costs.

The #AVCD project has worked with food engineers to develop smart food products for commercialization. These products include cakes and pastries made from #sorghum and #millet @ICRISAT @SmartFoodESA @SOMNIPROJECT

“Finger millet is high in calcium, zinc and iron. Hence it is good for children, young women and breast-feeding mothers. It possesses important amino acids, which help fight #malnutrition and degenerative diseases.@ICRISAT @kalromkulima @IFAD @SOMNIPROJECT @ICRISATESA @kilimoKE

#AVCD program distributed improved seed of #drought tolerant crops to over 100,000 farmers in Kenya. The seed includes #sorghum, #fingermillet, #groundnuts, #greengrams, and #pigeonpea

#AVCD has introduced new products in the Kenyan market. These products were developed in collaboration with Makerere University.The objective is to stimulate commercialization of #sorghum and #millets products in a bid to create market opportunities for dryland farmers @ICRISAT

@mohrby @ICRISAT @FeedtheFuture Drought Tolerant Crops

@ICRISATESA @ICRISAT @FeedtheFuture what is DTCs

Nutrition sensitization by @ICRISAT through @feedthefuture has resulted in farmers appreciating the benefits of DTCs both for nutrition and incomes. Through trainings, the project has been able to reach over 6,000 children under 2 years in Kenya

On the Origins and Dissemination of Domesticated #Sorghum and #PearlMillet across #Africa and into #India: a View from the Butana Group of the Far Eastern Sahel link.springer.com/article/10.100… @ICRISAT @ICRISATESA @IcrisatW @SmartFoodESA @SmartFoodGlobal @SmartFoodIndia @GLDC_CGIAR @FAO

#AVCD #Impact More than 3,000 youths have been trained on agronomy in the six AVCD-DTC Counties, where over 500 have set up agribusinesses @ICRISAT

Millet gives the highest nourishment to the body; it has more nutritive value and is a good source of energy because of the high amount of protein, normal total solids, moderate pH, and acidity.@ICRISAT @ICRISATESA @SOMNIPROJECT

#Kenyanfarmers reduce threshing and winnowing labour by over 80% after introduction of a mechanized thresher by @ICRISAT through @feedthefuture. Quality of grain also improved with adoption of innovations such as driers and hermetic bags. #AVCD

Sorghum provides a critical source of calories and serves as a good source of protein ,fiber and important micro-nutrients ,especially important for growing children.@ICRISAT @SOMNIPROJECT @ICRISAT @IFAD @kilimoKE @WorldVisionKE @ICRISATESA @USAIDEastAfrica @FAO @ChildFundKenya

Capacity building and Technology Deployment Programme :Provides training and mentoring for technology dissemination to raise yields and incomes.@WorldVisionKE @kalromkulima @ICRISAT @SOMNIPROJECT @ICRISATESA @kilimoKE @IFAD @IITA_CGIAR @USAID

Some Sorghum varieties are naturally resistant to damage by birds and insects.They produce chemicals inside the grain ,making it especially bitter for birds to ingest and it is difficult to digest.@ICRISAT @SOMNIPROJECT @ICRISATESA @IFAD @FAO @WorldVisionKE #nutrition #ZeroHunger

Dr @rajvarshney Research Program Director @RPGeneticGains delivers his remarks during closing session of the launch meeting of project “Utilization of introgression lines derived from wild Cajanus species for pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan) improvement”