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Irrigation And Drainage Research Project Possible Alternatives for sugarcane in the West Kenya
(Ministry Of Agriculture, 1979) Houtman, C.B. Van der Wal, O.A.
The West Kano Pilot Irrigation Project faces problems as not enough cane can be cut and transported in time. Since it is questionable, due to several circumstances discussed in this report, whether this situation will improve, NIB requested the services of the IDRP's Agronomist and Agroeconomist to look into the matter and to come with alternatives, if any, for the sugarcane production.
A Study of Methods of Cultivating Sisal in Kenya in Comparison with those used in Tanganyika
(1937) Lock, G.W.; Sisal Experiment Station
The system of cultivating sisal in Kenya does not correspond exactly with that ordinarily followed in Tanganyika and consequently it may be of interest to compare the respective methods of the two principal sisal producing centres in East Africa. Broadly speaking the distinction arises through climatic differences. induced chiefly by a wide disparity in altitude. Over 80 per cent of Kenya sisal exports originate from the highlands above ).000 feet and it is proposed to describe in most detail sisal growing in those parts.