LARMAT PARTNERS WITH UNES

Chairman LARMAT, other LARMAT STAFF AND UNES Representatives (Chief Manager, Finance and Administration and Business Development Manager

The Chief Manager, Finance and Administration Mr Simphilicious Ochieng and Mr. Wilson Mutinda (Business development Manager) at University of Nairobi Enterprise Services (UNES) on 9th November, 2023, visited the Department of LARMAT to discuss modalities of partnering with LARMAT to develop the Kibwezi Field Station Agribusiness Centre of Excellence. The UNES team presented the concept note on various possible enterprises

Chairman LARMAT, Prof. Richard Onwong’a concurred that UNES has the capacity to utilise Kibwezi field station vast land for commercial agricultural production but advised that they leverage e partnerships with IITA, KEFRI and that are actively undertaking various activities within the station. In principal, the idea of collaboration was welcomed, and further consultations involving the Vice Chancellor, director facility management, among others, will take place