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The East African Seed Company rolls out a new drought-resistance maize variety
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A new maize variety known as Tosheka, which takes a period of 90 days to mature has been rolled out by the East African Seed Company.
The drought-resistant maize variety targets the semi-arid areas of Eastern and North-Eastern but can also do well in high altitude areas which concentrate on tea and coffee farming.
“It does exemplary well with minimal rainfall and can sustain itself under harsh climate conditions,” Mr Solomon Mugambi, an agronomist said.
According to Mugambi,who is based in Mt Kenya region, the maize breed should be planted during the short rains.
Solomon was speaking to farmers drawn from the counties of; Nyeri, Nyandarua, Murang’a, Laikipia, Kirinyaga, Embu, Taita Taveta and Garissa during the Annual Farmers’ Day at the Wambugu Farmers Training Centre in Nyeri.
“We are advising farmers to look for high yielding crops because we have suffered crop failures prompted by the erratic weather conditions in most parts of the country,” explained Mr Mugambi.
He said the maize breed was double combed and its average production was between 25-30 bags of maize per acre, thus capable of earning commercial farmers a good profit.
The maize variety will be available to farmers for planting at the start of short rains in October.
