H.E Governor Issa Timamy EGH, OGW has officially launched the County Government of Lamu profiling and mapping of farmers, agro-input suppliers and grain stockists at Lake Kenyatta Agricultural Training Center (ATC)

The exercise which will be undertaken in the next 30 days is geared towards enabling the County Government to know household based farmers, design interventions that support them, develop appropriate advisory services and implement County Government pledges.

Speaking during the launch on Thursday afternoon at ATC, Governor Timamy said the database will capture the total number of farmers with their geographical distribution and enable the County to develop appropriate policies as well as other development interventions and support.

“This initiative is key in planning for all government projects and programmes such as farm inputs and going foward the department of Agriculture shall be able to plan adequately since we will know the exact number of farmers and their needs. I also urge data collectors to provide accurate information regarding the profile of farmers” stated Governor Timamy.

The data will be collected through ODK collect platform and KIAMIS (Kenya Integrated Agricultural Management Information System) an integrated web platform developed to support the registration of farmers in the different agricultural value chains.

In attendance was Deputy Governor H.E Raphael Munyua, Agriculture CECM Hon. James Gichu, Chief of Staff Mr. Abdulnasir Issa, County Project Coordinator Mr. Stephen Mbuvi, Agriculture Director Mr. James Njoroge among others.

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For more information contact:

Lamu County Government Communications Office at communication@lamu.go.ke