Improved Sorghum Variety: A Forgotten Gold in the Kenya Drylands

Abstract

Key Messages

• Improved sorghum adoption, production, commercial- ization and utilization offer a golden opportunity for food security among drylands inhabitants.
• Sorghum avails nutritional products through value addition and processing.
• Contract farming can stimulate farmers’ uptake and increase land acreage under- investment and production of improved sorghum.
• Devolved units and national the government should invest in the sorghum value chain by strengthening the extension systems and inputs support services.