School of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences

This is one of the main Schools in the South Eastern Kenya University (SEKU) in that at its inception, Dryland Agriculture and Animal Sciences formed the core mandate of this new University.  The emphasis was on the management of the Arid and Semi Arid lands (ASALS) of Kenya, to meet both educational and food requirement of ASAL inhabitants.  One of the core mandates of the School is to promote dryland crop production.  Emphasis is laid on drought tolerant crops e.g. sorghum, millets, pigeon peas, green grams, chickpea, cowpea, maize and beans. This is with a view to assuring food sufficiency.

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