Report on fodder shrub-based enterprise development workshop at Wambugu Agricultural Training Center, Nyeri

The workshop was a follow-up to a training of trainers’ workshop that was conducted by ICRAF in June 2006. The workshop involved participants from the East African region and one of its key outputs was that the participants would join hands and conduct training(s) for relevant people in their respective areas of work with the aim of scaling up the adoption of fodder shrubs in the region. IPACOP proposed to train farmers on development of fodder shrub based enterprises such as apiculture, aquaculture, sericulture, milk processing, seed and leaf meal marketing. The workshop involved farmer groups’ representatives from several districts of the central highlands of Kenya. Half of the participants were members of Kenya Association of Tree Seeds and Nursery Operators (KATRESNO). It was organised for three full days and one day was set aside for educational tour to places where the proposed technologies had been adopted. The workshop facilitators were drawn from organizations that have expertise in specific enterprises. More emphasis was laid on experiential learning and “hands on training”. The training event was also used as a means of linking the producers (farmers), extension service providers and the marketers.

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