Lessons from Nyeri agricultural show

Farmers learned of a technique where a poultry house is built on top of a fish bond such that chicken dropping provides feeds for the fish.

The method is called, integrated nutrient management technology.

Skills and innovations on Irrigation were taken a notch higher. A water pump using the ''Boda Boda'' bike engine is here with us. 

You just buy and fit the gadget plus the pipes and pump water to the farms, when you are done you fix you Boda and ride home!

ADC was exhibiting a technology called embryo transfer. 

A Boran cow is given a fertile embryo from a high grade Friesian cow, the former plays the role of a surrogate mother due to its strength to deliver; a well fed Borana cow can produce just enough milk to feed the calf.

 The were moved by breathtaking learning experience, each of them marveled at seeing a cow which can produce over fifty litres of milk per day! 

There were various designs of farm machinery to assist in chopping

pasture for the animals.

  

Fire tragedy destroy property and homes

By Bett Kipsang’ 

Sipili residences were on Tuesday again convened by the power of voluntary will, to respond to a fire disaster. Violent flames broke out and consumed a timber residential building leaving four families in the cold.  

The same disaster befell the small trading centre one year ago and many businesses and residential homes were razed down. Traders and residents incurred heavy losses in the twin disasters.

Volunteers try to bring down adjacent buildings to prevent whirling

flames from spreading to the neighboring plots

Property goes up in flames 

 Many questions are lingering in the minds of Sipili residents. What should be done to contain the frequent fire accidents? What about the building materials for the urban and Peri-urban residential areas? 

Are there residential policies in place? What are are policies stating if any? For how long will the efforts of hardworking peoples be consumed in the raging fires? 

Those are the many questions eating up the mind of residents, who are living in fear of possible fire accidents in future.

 Concrete block buildings were not wiped out as those made of timber.

As the adult rescuers ran halter-skelter to salvage at least some of the valuables from

the burning houses, these young lads had already rescued their treasured pets. 

The lucky kittens are safe from danger.