College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences

Masii Horticultural Farmers following the proceedings of the training on small scale processing on mango fruits at the University of Nairobi Faculty of Agriculture upper Kabete Campus. The farmers were taken through the best practices in fruit processing,Food processing Hygiene and food safety, processing facilities/ Equipment, processing of various mango products(Theory);Mango Juices, Mango Wine, Mango leather(ROLL) Product development and Commercialization. The main Trainers Were. Prof. Jane Ambuko,Dr. George Abong and Mr.

Coffee is one of the major industrial crops produced in Kenya. It is the fifth-largest foreign exchange earner after tourism, tea, horticulture and diaspora remittances. Coffee is the mainstay of about 800,000 households mostly rural. In the 70s and 80s, coffee was regarded as the ‘black gold’ because it raked in millions of shillings for the farmers. Kenya was then the top player in the global market and the high-quality coffee from Kenya was highly sought after to blend coffees from other countries.

The increasing need to sustainably manage Frankincense trees in Somaliland led to a collaborative research between World vision Somalia, the University of Nairobi and IGAD Sheikh Technical Veterinary School (ISTVS). This partnership seeks to develop and implement propagation of frankincense through tissue culture technology. The initial plan started with the process being curried out at the University of Nairobi tissue culture laboratory in the initial phase.

Gender research and training is vital because sex, love, care, and reproduction are basic dimensions in life, and yet, the meaning of gender is contested.

Owing to that, lecturers from the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences (CAVS) conducted gender analysis trainng to the postgraduate students and some of their supervisors.