Meru South District - UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative

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4.2 Dry Lands The <strong>District</strong> has a significant share of such lands in nearly the whole of Igamba Ng’ombe Division and a part of Mwimbi, Chuka and Muthambi Divisions. • Production systems Mainly cattle rearing on free range. Food crop production mainly sorghum, millet, drought resistant varieties of maize and beans, cash crops include tobacco and cotton, pawpaw and mangoes slowly gaining popularity. • Encroachment Cultivation along the main rivers banks mainly for horticulture – kales and tomatoes, pulses etc. Sand harvesting encroaches river banks and river cause. • Land use changes Migration from the upper zones has led to more area under crop cultivation and depletion of natural vegetation to give way to more land for agriculture - Frequent crop failure due to unreliable rainfall leads to burning of charcoal for subsistence. • Resource use conflicts In areas where land adjudication is incomplete conflicts in resource use arise in form of grazing and charcoal burning. Water users associations are used to address water resource use conflicts, e.g. Tungu hot spot. Forests are illegally cut down to meet timber demand and also grazing lands. Cutting and growing of trees in the farms mainly along farm boundaries sometimes attracts conflicts between neighbours. • Efforts towards sustainable utilization of ASALs - Water harvesting techniques to improve crop production is limited. These include dams and pans, bore holes and shallow wells, rock catchments and roof harvesting. - Introduction of drought resistant crop varieties developed from Katumani by Kenya Agricultural Research Institute. - Practicing Agro-silvo-pastoralism is picking up, though at a limited pace. 36
CHAPTER 5: AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK AND FISHERIES 5.1 Agriculture The agriculture and rural development sector is the main source of employment and is key to poverty reduction. The sector provides 80 per cent of food requirements and contributes 45 per cent of household incomes. It employs 64,000 people. The main food crops are maize, beans, millet, sorghum and pigeon peas while the main crops are tea, coffee and cotton. Table 20: Fertilizer and Pesticides usage Crop Fertilizer (in KGs) Pesticide (in KGs) Coffee (i) NPK 20.20.0=220 FUNGICIDES (ii) 17.17.17=551 (i) Copper oxychloride-274 (ii) DAP 230kgs (ii) Copper cobox-300 (iii) (iv)CAN(26%)-350 (iii) Daconil-6 (iv) (v) ASN -150 INSECTCIDES (vi) UREA-60 (i)lebaycid-433 (ii)Sumithion- (vii) MAZMAX— 33 FOLIC FEED-37 (iii)Dursban-829 (ix) BOOSTER-504 (iv)Malathion-22 (x) EASYZIO-76 (v)Fursban-5 (xi) BAZGOLON-304 HERBICIDES Figures are kg /ha (i)Touch down-5 (ii)Mamba-80 Tea NPK 200 kg per acre (iii)Erason-22 Tomatoes (i)CAN-300kg/ha (ii)DAP-200kg/20kg at flower per hole French Beans ---DAP 200kg/ha --CAN top dress –100kg/ha 37 (i)Buldock (ii)Karate (iii)Kelthon Ec (iv)Metazy (v)Nemazon (vi)Nemacur (vii)Diazinon (viii)Lebaycid (ix)Melathion (x)Polyron (ix)Milras -Metasystock -Dimathoate -Bizade -Buldock 025Ec Karate -Omethote
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