I have switched from the conventional wheat variety and adopted the high-yielding variety in order to improve my yields, Kiptalam said.
With the Kenya Wren wheat variety, Kiptalam hopes to harvest at least eight metric tons per hectare as compared to four metric tons with conventional ones.
Data from the Ministry of Agriculture indicate that local farmers produce about 350,000 metric tons of wheat annually against an annual consumption of 900,000 metric tons.
The country imports from Russia and Ukraine to address the shortfall in domestic production.
Anthony Kioko, CEO of Cereal Growers Association (CGA), said that local farmers are unable to compete with imported wheat because of their high cost of production. Now the country is encouraging farmers to embrace new wheat varieties with high yields.
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