Enhancing the legume value chain in KenyaThe Joint Steering Committee of the Legume Centre of Excellence for Food and Nutrition Security pose for a group photo with JKUAT Vice-Chancellor, Prof Ngumi. For the past three years, the Legume Centre of Excellence for Food and Nutrition Security (LCEFoNS) has endeavoured to enhance the legume value chain of the country. With the help of ICT, the Legume Centre of Excellence in Food and Nutrition Security plans to escalate the data collected and analyzed to all stakeholders of the legume value chain across the country. The first project focuses on legume production and management practices including breeding for easy to cook flatulence free varieties of high nutritional value. The second project delves into storage and processing of legumes for expedient products of high nutritional value.

Source: Standard Digital January 10, 2020 17:48 UTC