Egerton University, Kenya, in partnership with the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) and Gulu University in Uganda, through the support from MasterCard Foundation, is implementing a Program titled “Transforming African Agricultural Universities to meaningfully contribute to Africa’s Growth and Development (TAGDev)”.
AgriSCALE is a joint project for building higher education capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa in the fields of bioeconomy and agriculture. Through curricula reforms, education will be more student-centred with real-life field challenges with companies and societal actors. The project is funded by the Erasmus+ programme.
Course objective: To equip participants on the theoretical and practical aspects of livestock feed production, feed processing, feed formulation and quality control. It will enable practitioners formulate feeds which meet the supply of all the nutrients required by farm animals.
Egerton University Council appointed Professor Gideon Obare as the Director of Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development effective 1 August 2021 for three years. Prof. Obare is a Professor of Agricultural Economics at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Management in the Faculty of Agriculture, Egerton University.
