County Department of Agriculture,Livestock and Fisheries- Baringo County

The department of Agriculture, Livestock and Blue economy in Baringo urges all residents of the County to take advantage of the current short rains and harvest water at the same time planting fruit trees and short rains.

Baringo county has reported invasion of some areas of Tiaty sub county by desert locusts. Joint surveillance team has been dispatched to ascertain the extend of damage. Anybody with information please contact your nearest Agriculture office, chief or ward administrator

The department would like to request all residents of the County to be on the look out for any probable outbreak of desert locust. Any sightings should be reported to the nearest Agriculture office or any adminstration office near. The county department is on high alert.

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We request all farmers who grow maize to register so that they can sell their maize to NCPB, The same list of farmers will be able to access subsidised government fertiliser, even if u don't have maize to sell or don't need fertiliser now, please register in the nearest Agriculture office. The exercise is for all farmers. Tell a neighbour.

This years kabarnet ASK Show is here with us again, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, welcomes all to visit their stand and witness the latest technologies in food production to utilisation. Come and interact with experts on different Agricultural value chains.

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Tiaty Sub County has great potential in attaining food security, little more effort in the area will completely change the land scape. This is drip irrigation demonstration done by the Ministry at Silale Ward.

Farmers getting their coffee seedlings from Baringo North. Visit the Sub County headquarters for advice and more seedlings

As the long rains continue the department of Agriculture has supplied certified assorted seedlings across the County, through a project initiated by the County known as Affruitation programme. The objective of the programme is to improve food and nutrition security, increase incomes and employment creation. Through extension officers the county is training groups and empowering them to have fruit tree nurseries which are registered and also registered with relevant bodies. So far this Ft 120000 seedlings of assorted fruits have been supplied , another project which the county is focusing on is on Coffee improvement, which mainly is to improve the coffee value chain from production to value addition. The county intends to increase the area under coffee from 896 hectares to 1500 hectares within five years. That means an extra 1.5 million trees of coffee need to be planted in the county. This will be able to increase production to more than 2000 tonnes of clean coffee which will be able required to run a mill profitably. To start with the Government has supplied 100 KGS of seeds to cooperative societies for raising and supply to their members at minimal cost. To expand on the area on top of what the cooperatives have the county Government will continue supplying seedlings at subsidized rates to farmers. Currently 100000 seedlings have been procured and supply is continuing, first batch has gone to baringo north and central sub counties. The other batches will cover the entire county.