Kitui County is characterised by unreliable rainfall across the year. Kitui County Government, in collaboration with the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, has come up with a project of value chain addition on mangoes. Musyoka urged farmers to be more serious with mango farming and also join cooperatives so that they may easily benefit from mango farming, which over the years has not been profitable. Kitui value chain addition specialist Dr Temi Mutia said that in this particular mango season, their focus is to make sure that they make enough mango flakes. Kitui Agriculture CEC Emmanuel Kisangau urged farmers to embrace mango value addition so as to minimise low returns gotten from selling fresh produce.

Source: The Star October 11, 2020 19:52 UTC