The current research projects include:

1. Economics and Biometrics

⦁    Economic Returns and Variety Development Cost Assessment in the Sugar Industry: The Case of SRI's released varieties (2002)

⦁    Choice of crops and its impacts on food security status n the Western Kenya's Sugar belt; A Discrete Choice Model Approach

⦁    Integrated approach for addressing declining sugarcane productivity: case study of Kakamega county

2. Agriculture Engineering

⦁    Towards a decision support system for evaluating the impact of sugarcane production on soil and water loss in Kenya Sugar Industry

⦁    Application of GIS, RS and the USDA Curve No method in assessing runoff and soil loss and developing soil & water BMPs for the Kenyan sugar industry

3. Crop Development

⦁    Evaluation of sugar Industry information to improve sugarcane productivity in Western Kenya

⦁    Calibration and validation of the DSSAT-CANEGRO sugarcane simulation model

⦁    Evaluation of lime placement in ameliorating soil acidity for improved nutrient uptake and yields of sugarcane – soybean intercropping in Western Kenya

⦁    Determination of Sugarcane Smut (Sporisorium Scitamenia) Pathotypes and Their Genetic and Spatial Variability in Kenya

⦁    The Potential of using Fungicidal and Biological Agents for Control of Sugarcane Smut (Sporisorium Scitamenia) in Kenya

⦁    Evaluation of sugarcane germplasm to determine their breeding potential

4. Milling and Processing

⦁    Determination of dextran and mannitol during sugar processing to improve sugar recovery

⦁    Assessment of water quality in effluent treatment lagoons of sugar and its allied industries in Kenya

⦁    Nutritive and pharmacological investigation of final molasses for product formulation