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Risper Agutu on her indigenous maize farm in Got Osimbo, Ugunja Sub-county, Siaya County. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard]
Farmers continue to face increasingly unpredictable weather patterns driven by climate change, rising costs of farm inputs such as fertilisers and seeds, and disruptions in global supply chains, which threaten agricultural productivity and household incomes.
However, farmers in the Got Osimbo area of Ugunja sub-county, Siaya County, are looking forward to a bumper harvest despite the prevailing harsh economic and climatic conditions.
This follows their decision to embrace indigenous and climate-resilient crops as a strategy for adapting to recurring shocks affecting modern agriculture.
