Nairobi, March 6 -- The government has urged farmers to embrace drought-tolerant and early maturing crops in order to ensure food and nutrition security in the country.

Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi said the use of drought-tolerant and early maturing crops is a major step towards mitigating challenges posed by climate change.

Further, he said there is need to harness the potential of irrigation and development of water dams to enable the cultivation of crops all year round to ensure the availability of food within households.

"This will be a direct contribution towards food and nutrition security. To mitigate the challenge of climate change we encourage farmers to use drought tolerant crops, other early maturing crops a...