Today, there are several attempts to make nutritious food products low in glycemic carbohydrates as this can partly help in solving the ever-growing numbers of type 2 diabetes and obesity. We thus made two types of jam, ...

Increased pressure on land brought about by increased population in the highlands of Western Kenya such as Trans Nzoia Countyhas led to increased land fragmentation and forced farmers to diversify their crops ...

The measurement of isotopic abundances and ratio variations of plutonium can provide important information about the sources and behaviours of radiogenic isotopes in the environment. The detection of ultra-trace isotopes ...

French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), also known as snap bean, is important in the socio- economic systems and livelihoods in Kenya (Monda et al., 2003) and is one of the major vegetable export crops for East Africa. The ...

Use of fish meal in aquaculture is gradually becoming unsustainable due to competition, cost and ecological challenges hence the need to expand the alternative protein sources. The earthworm, Eisenia fetida is among the ...

Many researchers continue to illustrate the benefits of Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhiza fungi on crop output, particularly under unfavourable growth environment. In Sub–saharan Africa, mycorrhizae research on economically ...

The area under rice cultivation in Kenya has been increasing but production and productivity are still low compared to demand due to inappropriate, poor and untimely land preparation and field water management. For ...

When water is not limiting, soil acidity, deficiencies of phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) amongst others are considered to be the major causes of low wheat yields in Uasin-Gishu County, Kenya. In this County, average annual ...