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KARI Kitale Outreach and Partnerships
Agricultural Technology and Information Response Initiate (ATIRI)
The objective is to promote food security, alleviate poverty and reduce natural resource degradation through empowering farmers to demand, apply and scale up adoption of agricultural technologies.
Achievement
• 21 CBOs, 569 farmers directly with 43,500 beneficiaries empowered.
Six technologies disseminated through CBOs, (AT, fish farming, milk production and value addition, horticultural production, clean potato seed production)
Dissemination of Results
a) KARI Kitale has disseminated the research results between
2002-2008 through:-
| Refereed journal paper | 7 |
| Book chapters | 7 |
| Conference papers | 61 |
| Technical notes | 4 |
| Leaflets | 15 |
| Bulletins | 9 |

b) Other channels of disseminating technologies and products:
• ASK shows

Dr Omari Odongo Centre Director KARI Kitale and Dr Joseph Ochieng’, Assistant Director Food crops in a Field Day in Elgon Downs farm of Kenya Seed company-2010
• Field days
• Farmer Field Schools
• Visit to Centre by clients
• ATIRI programmes
• Training of organized groups