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Los niveles de ocupación en la provincia por los tres días de descanso llegaron a puntos entre el 75 y el 100 por ciento. Según los informes, Mina Clavero y Villa General Belgrano fueron los destinos más elegidos.
Gran afluencia turística en Córdoba por el fin de semana largo
El entrenador argentino hizo el último corte y están los 12 que buscarán un lugar en el Mundial. Entrá y enterate quiénes viajan mañana a Puerto Rico. Son parte del plantel los cordobeses Campazzo, Juan Fernán dez y Bortolín.
Lamas dio la lista con tres cordobeses para el Premundial
El encuentro se disputa en el estadio Néstor Díaz Pérez, con Andrés Merlos como árbitro.
Estudiantes visita a Lanús en busca de la punta
Farmers putting maize in a silo that guards against pests. The silos are made by Nicholas Onyango. PHOTO: HEZRON OCHIEL/STANDARD
“Before Osama invaded, I used to grow grain that would last my family until the next season. But when the pest invaded, I lost 10 sacks of maize. I stopped waiting for the maize to dry and would sell while it was still green at a throwaway price,” said Mr Otiep, a resident of Homa Bay County.
While he opted to go this route, many other farmers continued to rely on traditional cribs and gunny bags to store their grain, methods that could not guarantee protection against pests. Such post-harvest losses were threatening food production around the country.
But this is changing with the introduction of metal silos, which are promising to be the ultimate weapon in improving food security for small-scale farmers by guaranteeing full protection against destructive pests.
No chemicals
“In the few years I have used the silo, my grain is no longer being lost to Osama. Even weevils no longer attack. This means I don’t have to use chemicals. I simply harvest and store the crops,” said Otiep, one of the beneficiaries of the metal silos project.
Since Catholic Relief Services (CRS), a non-governmental organisation, first introduced the silos seven years ago, more than 500 farmers have bought them, and production levels have rapidly risen as farmers expand their output and even order larger silos.
“Initially farmers ordered small silos that could contain only two bags of grain (180kg). But now that they have realised their effectiveness, they are ordering larger ones of 20 bags (1,800kg),” said Nicholas Onyango, an artisan manufacturing the silos.
The metal silos project was informed by frequent severe pest infestations, which occasionally wiped entire harvests out and resulted in massive losses.
“With the traditional storage facilities, the rate of destruction by the notorious Osama, which currently accounts for 10-20 per cent of post-harvest losses in Kisumu alone, was severe. This prompted the need for a lasting solution,” said Pamela Ojoro, a field officer from the Homa Bay Catholic Diocese involved in the programme.
Simple technology
It is against this backdrop that the diocese came up with a simple and affordable technology to help remedy the situation. The silos are effective in locking out any insect or pest that may want to invade the grain.
Storage challenges have led to grain spoilage, thus reducing farmers’ appetite for growing more crops. The traditional storage methods — such as granaries — which are prone to pest infestation and theft, have failed to guarantee safe storage for many farmers.
In a world where half of all food is wasted, an estimated 870 million suffer from hunger. The estimated total value of food loss at the retail and consumer levels in the United States, as purchased at retail prices, was $165.6 billion in 2008 alone.
Food and nutrition experts believe that reducing food losses through better harvesting, storage, processing, transportation and marketing methods, and combining this with profound and lasting changes in the way people consume food, could guarantee the world’s food security.
“Poor storage facilities meant that farming was for subsistence, where grain produced barely reached the next season.
But with these silos and super bags in use, we have seen production go up,” Aggrey Otwera, an agricultural expert from the government, told The Standard.
However, even as farmers embrace the silos and abandon their traditional storage methods, the challenge of space, proper use of the equipment and price could cripple the technology.
With the cheapest silo (one bag or 90kg) going for Sh3,000 and largest (20 bags or 1,800kg) costing Sh35,000, poor farmers can hardly afford them.
In addition, the silos require sufficient space and so farmers with small houses are still reluctant to buy into the idea.
Ojoro says space, coupled with an inability to follow procedures – proper drying of the cereals before storage and keeping the silos away from dump or direct sunlight – could jeopardise effective use.
To eliminate rotting, it is recommended that grain meant for storage in the silos be completely dried. Whenever such guidelines are strictly followed, the crop is kept safe for more than two years.
No oxygen
Made from galvanized metal, the silos are air tight. Enclosed lit candles are used inside to exhaustively burn any oxygen.
Learning from the success of the silos, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre and Catholic Diocese of Homa Bay have started a similar project in Western Kenya with help from a subsidy – the Agriculture and Environment Programme of the Diocese.
The three-year programme is supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
By HEZRON OCHIEL, The Standard
Metal silos now ultimate weapon against ‘Osama’
In Kiambu, chiefs accused police officers stationed at their posts of refusing to take orders and instructions from them, thus watering down the war on illicit brews.
This was said during a meeting for county administrators called by area County Commissioner Esther Maina in Kiambu town to discuss the ongoing war on illicit brews.
The meeting follows a directive by President Uhuru Kenyatta that illicit liquor and drugs should be wiped out in their areas of jurisdiction.
Samuel Kibugi, the Kiambu town chief said thus: “They ( police) are saying we cannot order them around because we do not have the jurisdiction. They say they are under the Inspector-General of Police and only their police bosses can give them instructions.”
Other chiefs concurred with Mr Kibugi’s remarks.
Previously, the police and provincial commissioners were under the same ministry, the defunct Internal Security ministry. But with the introduction of the independent office of the Inspector-General, police say they are separate from the provincial administration.
The administrators also alleged that officers commanding stations were refusing to assign them officers during crackdowns, forcing them to go on their own.
In Nyeri and neighbouring Kirinyaga County, the chiefs also complained of lack of cooperation from the law enforcers.
No support
“Since the unveiling of the office of the Inspector-General of Police, even the APs at our offices are refusing to take instructions from us. We need to have the support of the police if the fight against these illicit brews is to be won,” said a chief who refused to be named.
But Central Region Police spokesman Ephantus Kiura doubted whether the chiefs’ concerns were genuine.
“It is true that all police officers are answerable to the Inspector-General but I think there is more than meets the eye in these allegations,” said Kiura. The officer said chiefs with such concerns should lodge their complaints with the relevant authorities.
The Kiambu County Commissioner also described the claims as mere excuses. She accused some chiefs of incompetence, saying they were trying to fake a bad working relationship with the officers to defend themselves.
She warned that they were monitoring the chiefs on their individual performance and those who do not deliver will be sacked.
“Before the President gets on me, the chiefs who are bringing excuses and not results will go home first. The President has made its clear to me twice of the consequences of any failure,” she added.
By ERIC WAINAINA and LYDIAH NYAWIRA, The Standard
Chiefs, police differ over war on illicit brews in Central Kenya
The TJRC has told the court that the orders sought to expunge the names and adverse reports on Ngengi Muigai and his sister Beth Mugo cannot be granted because the implementation stage will be done by the National Land Commission (NLC).
The two want the report linking them to illegal acquisition of public land quashed.
Wedding gift
The two petitioners through their lawyer Jennifer Shamalla want the court to compel TJRC to provide evidence to prove its allegations that Jomo Kenyatta grabbed public land and dished it out to relatives.
TJRC in response to the case said the NLC has the legal and independent jurisdiction to look at the matters afresh, and the two petitioners shall be accorded a further opportunity to make representations in their favour before the institution.
Muigai and Mugo have separately filed cases seeking to have sections of the report mentioning them adversely, expunged.
Yesterday, Justice Majanja informed the parties that all the legal disputes against TJRC arising from the report and touching on land issues will be consolidated and heard together.
The cases will be mentioned on Monday for further directions.
Muigai has sued TJRC for claiming in its report that the late President Jomo Kenyatta gave him a parcel of land unlawfully as a wedding gift.
Muigai a nephew of Kenyatta wants the court to compel TJRC to produce evidence that he was given land as a wedding gift. He is challenging allegations that he irregularly acquired land in Karura forest in 1997.
He argues that TJRC acted without jurisdiction in coming up with findings that are prejudicial to him without affording him an opportunity to be heard.
Mugo on the other hand denies TJRC allegations that she acquired prime public land at the Coast irregularly. She said she owns property in Nyali, but she purchased it jointly with her husband Nicholas Mugo.
The two also want the section of the TJRC report mentioning them adversely, expunged. They said the report on them is inaccurate. Muigai has named the TJRC, Inspector General of Police, CID Director and the Attorney General as respondents.
By PAMELA CHEPKEMEI, The Standard
TJRC ‘cannot remove President Uhuru Kenyatta kin from report’
Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyo
Speaking in Malaba, Mr Kimaiyo said the two countries had resolved to work towards a lasting solution to the dispute. HisUgandan counterpart Kale Kayihura accompanied him.
The security chiefs stated that the two countries had already put structures in place to clear the “mess” surrounding Migingo Island.
Kimaiyo also said it was the duty of Kenya and Ugandato ensure that citizens of both countries living on the disputed island co-existed peacefully.
“We are headed for Migingo to establish how we can make sure our security personnel provide maximum security to our citizens staying on the island,” said Kimaiyo who assured Kenyans that the matter would be solved amicably.
He further said the mission of their visit was as per East Africa Community protocol, to ensure that residents live and trade without any problems.
Kayihura said they would ensure the mounting tension is cleared.
He said Kenyans and Ugandans have coexisted in peace since independence adding that there was need to ensure that nothing strains the relationship between the two states.
“There has been much tension over Migingo Island and we are committed to eliminating it since they are our people and they must be guaranteed total security,” said Kayihura.
No crisis
He added that there was no crisis on the island currently, saying their visit was a fact-finding mission to meet the residents and discuss pertinent issues of security.
“We want to ensure there is peace and coexistence between our two countries and this is the reason we are visiting the place,” he stated.
Tension was high on the island a few weeks ago when Uganda police allegedly whipped a Kenyan Administration Police officer in public.
Security chiefs
However calm has returned to the island with the assurance that the matter will be settled diplomatically. Last week, the Ugandan police impounded two tonnes of fish from Kenyans estimated at Sh500,000. The officers based at the disputed Migingo Island took the consignments of Nile Perch at gun-point. Migingo beach chairman Juma Ombori said the armed neighbours strayed into Kenya waters and took the stock from the fishermen at night.
Inspector-General of Police David Kimaiyo reassures on Migingo security
Kethi Kilonzo
However when the matter came before High Court Judge David Majanja the IEBC and Kethi’s lawyers entered consent where the electoral body agreed to supply statements recorded by police and a BVR register.
IEBC is to furnish the lawyer with the statement of the commission’s electoral officer recorded by police on the disappearance of the acknowledgement slip booklet andBVR register for Lang’ata constituency.
Challenging candidature
The judge directed that the details of the BVR registershould only be released to Kethi’s lawyers.
Among the documents she was seeking to be given include all the reports of the IEBC referred to and produced by witnesses who gave their evidence before the Dispute Resolution Committee during the suit challenging her candidature.
The IEBC had agreed to furnish Kethi with registers of voters for polling station number 2 NCC social hall and the principal register of voters of the polling station. She has also demanded a certified copy of the register of voters with biometrics used at the hall. The electoral body also agreed to release reports given to the Director of Voter Registration Immaculate Kasait from the 290 constituencies registration officers.
By Isaiah Lucheli, The Standard
IEBC yet to give Lawyer Kethi Kilonzo documents as per order
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