Food

Why 2025 was a defining period for LBDA, with major strides as the Authority focuses on priority projects in 2026 to spur development

Author CPA Wycliffe Ochiaga, EBS The year 2025 has been a defining period for LBDA as we continued to advance our mandate of promoting sustainable...

How 380,000 acres of land in Western Kenya  can transform the country’s rice economy for both Domestic and Export

By Anderson Ojwang                    The rice schemes in Western Kenya are capable of meeting the country’s annual demand of one million metric tons and to allow...

Kisumu High Court stops ongoing farmers and millers public participation and adoption of  the Election procedures by Kenya Sugar Board

By Anderson Ojwang  The elections of farmers and millers directors to the Kenya Sugar Biard may wait a little...

“Keep corruption out of Mumias Sugar Company,” Mudavadi warns.

By OPCS Press Service Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has warned the new management of Mumias Sugar Company and local...

Mbadi wants LBDA to make the Oluch-Kimira irrigation project economically viable 

By Habil Onyango The Lake Basin Development Authority (LBDA) has been tasked with transforming the Sh 7.2 billion Oluch-Kimira irrigation...

President Ruto breathes a new lease of lifein the ailing sugar sector in Western Kenya

By Anderson Ojwang Western Kenya could be waking up from the economic doldrums that have bedeviled them for the last...

County Government of Homa Bay signs Sh 800M MOU with farmers on value chain

By Habil Onyango The County Government of Homa Bay has signed Sh800M a Community Driven Development Project (CDDP) Memorandum of...

Government disburses Sh 68M to compensate residents displaced by Rice scheme in Nyatike

By Erick Otieno Displaced residents of the Lower Kuja Irrigation scheme in the Nyatike sub-county can now smile after the...