Long rains improve outlook for sorghum farmers, KBL factoryA sorghum farmer attends to his crop at his farm im Muhoroni Kisumu county on May18th 2018. The start of long rains across western Kenya has rekindled hopes for some 15,000 farmers contracted to grow sorghum for the Kenya Breweries Limited (KBL) keg plant in Kisumu.Delayed rains had sent fears of possible crop failure and many of the farmers put off planting to wait for the rains. KBL also risked falling short in the anticipated supply to the keg brewery which uses specific white sorghum varieties as the primary raw material for the low-end beer. With deep-digging tap roots, the crop, unlike maize, is more resilient in the face of unpredictable rains, he explained. Farmers, he said, had been encouraged to take advantage of the current rains to plant.

Source: Standard Digital April 27, 2019 16:07 UTC