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Item Kenya Agricultural Research Institute - Regional Research Center-Embu Annual Report 1996(Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, 1996) Kenya Agricultural Research Institute; Gethi, M.; Kihanda, F.M.; Micheni, A.N.; Kenya Agricultural Research InstituteRegional Research Centre Embu, is one of the centers of Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, with a mandate to carry out Adaptive and Applied Research aimed at developing appropriate technologies necessary to improve agricultural production under diverse geo-physical and socio-cultural backgrounds. At RRC-Embu, the activities are conducted under the Regional Research Programme (RRP) that focuses on integration of farm enterprises/resources and mutual collaboration with farmers, agricultural extension agents and other actors in Agricultural development. The Centre has a research mandate for Embu, Mbeere, Meru Central (formerly Meru), Meru North (formerly Nyambene), Tharaka (split from Tharaka-Nithi), Meru South (split from Tharaka-Nithi), Murang'a (recently split into Maragua and Murang'a), Kirinyaga, and Nyeri districts. The mandate districts have a combined area of 18,326 km² of which 59% is agricultural land. The mandate area has a wide range of agro-ecological conditions ranging from the Pyrethrum-wheat (UH₂) to Livestock-millet land use systems (Ls). This document summarizes the annual (1996) results of the various on-farm and on-station research and demonstrations conducted within the centre's mandate areas. It is through the mutual participation of farmers, research scientists, agricultural extension staff and other collaborating stakeholders (individuals NGOs and churches) that the Centre managed to achieve a lot in terms of meeting its challenges. In this context I wish to register my most sincere gratitude to all those who contributed in improving the effectiveness and efficiency in identification of the constraints limiting agricultural production, implementation of research/extension activities and dissemination of the appropriate proved research technologies to farmers.
