By BRIAN OKINDAMore by this AuthorA farm manager from Laikipia has been awarded this year’s British Agrochemical Standards Inspection Scheme (BASIS), the Louise Labuschagne award. The general manager of Kariunga Greens Farm in Laikipia, Daniel Ontonyi, was given the award after he emerged the best student of BASIS Certificate in Crop Protection. The annual award, named after the curriculum’s founder, Louise Labuschagne, who is the co-founder of Real IPM together with Dr Henry Wainwright, is given as a certificate of competence on BASIS Certificate in Crop Protection. The course is offered at the institution’s headquarters in Thika and trains agronomists on the BASIS Crop Protection Certificate of Competency; a certificate which is globally recognised as a measure of competence for crop advisors. We empower our students with this information to support them in their agriculture and horticulture decisions,” said Lee Ngugi, the training manager at Real IPM.

Source: Daily Nation April 21, 2018 09:00 UTC