Egerton University and Boitekanelo College from Bostwana recently jointly trained more than 20 Finger millet farmers representing seven community groups from Kipsitet area of Kericho County on value-addition of their finger millet harvest. The farmers were drawn from local farmer groups which have adopted the high yielding, fast maturing and highly nutritious U15 and P224 finger millet varieties developed under the KALRO-Egerton University Kenya Climate Smart Agriculture (KCSAP) Finger Millet Value Chain Project.

The National Environment Complaints Committee (NECC) Chairman DrJustryNyaberi, Committee Secretary, Dr John Chumo, and members of the Hindu Religious & Service Centre (HRSC) Mr Jayaram Ankala, Mr Nitin Shah and Ms Diva Shah on 14 October held a meeting with Vice-Chancellor Professor Isaac Kibwage.

In partnership with Egerton University, African Development Bank (AfDB) has been training lecturers from public universities over the last few years in a move to address the shortfall of engineering lecturers in Kenya.