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Scientists: Bt maize is developed from soil bacteria not in labs
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Kenya inks deal with Australian firm to provide affordable green fertilisers by 2025
Kenya inks deal with Australian firm to provide affordable green fertilisers by 2025
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Controlling mortal Coccidiosis in chicken
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Kenya’s fresh agriculture exporters lose Sh500M as KQ pilots strike
Kenya’s fresh agriculture exporters lose Sh500M as KQ pilots strike
By George Munene
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UK to finance Sh500B green investments in agriculture, green energy & transport
UK to finance Sh500B green investments in agriculture, green energy & transport
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Ruiru dairy farmers journey from milk hawking to milking 400 liters daily
Ruiru dairy farmers journey from milk hawking to milking 400 liters daily
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Fanya Juu terraces guard soil erosion, double farmer yields
Fanya Juu terraces guard soil erosion, double farmer yields
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Kenya, Chinese collab shows maize yield increases 50% with proper practices
Kenya, Chinese collab shows maize yield increases 50% with proper practices
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The Séralini affair: Discredited study that got GMOs banned in Kenya
The Séralini affair: Discredited study that got GMOs banned in Kenya
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Not just a pest: the value of termites in African agriculture
Not just a pest: the value of termites in African agriculture
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30% of global arable land made useless due to excessive irrigation
30% of global arable land made useless due to excessive irrigation
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Newly introduced Komboka rice gives farmers bumper harvests
Newly introduced Komboka rice gives farmers bumper harvests
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- ► 2022 (250)
- ► November (21)
- • Scientists: Bt maize is developed from soil bacteria not in labs
- • Kenya inks deal with Australian firm to provide affordable green fertilisers by 2025
- • Controlling mortal Coccidiosis in chicken
- • Kenya’s fresh agriculture exporters lose Sh500M as KQ pilots strike
- • UK to finance Sh500B green investments in agriculture, green energy & transport
- • Ruiru dairy farmers journey from milk hawking to milking 400 liters daily
- • Fanya Juu terraces guard soil erosion, double farmer yields
- • Kenya, Chinese collab shows maize yield increases 50% with proper practices
- • The Séralini affair: Discredited study that got GMOs banned in Kenya
- • Not just a pest: the value of termites in African agriculture
- • 30% of global arable land made useless due to excessive irrigation
- • Newly introduced Komboka rice gives farmers bumper harvests
- • Partial Root-Zone Drying irrigation enables potato farmers halve water usage
- • Biological methods of dealing with Striga weed that causes 90% losses
- • Timely transition of goat kids to pasture key in avoiding stunted growth, poor health
- • Simple guide to setting up a backyard vertical garden
- • Farmers advised to identify markets before production to avoid poor prices
- • Reducing losses after harvest can more than triple farmer earnings
- • How to control deadly foot and mouth disease
- • Factsheet: Growing in demand sorghum
- • Expert advice: What to consider to avoid losses during artificial insemination
- ► October (30)
- • Researchers find genetically modified maize safe for environment
- • Nyandarua potato farmers co-op secures tenders with group farming
- • Continous training helps poultry farmers halve losses & balloon profits
- • Sh607M fund set up to finance African agriculture SMEs
- • Weekly roundup of agriculture jobs-- 28th Oct 2022
- • Bee keeping helps safeguard crops from invading elephants
- • Greasing beehives helps keep them safe from crawling predators
- • Charcoal & eggshells mix quick remedy for poisoned rabbits
- • Makueni sweet potato farmers get ready market from Kenya’s first commercial microwave processing plant
- • Kitui farmer keeps farm irrigated through trench water harvesting
- • Lighting kerosene lantern helps tomato farmers control fruit flies
- • Farmers look to detergent to combat deadly fusarium wilt
- • Young nutritionist named UN-Kenya person of the year
- • Agripreneur ventures into cricket farming helping livestock farmers tame feed cost
- • Kenyan farmers urged to grow in-demand nutritious, early-maturing beans
- • Soaring feed prices lead farmer to 5X more profitable egg-hatching business
- • Nyandarua couple blazing trail for Hampshire Down sheep farming in Kenya
- • 11MT of GMO maize to be planted on 500,000 acres early next year
- • Kericho maize farmer raises output by 30 bags/acre replacing fertilisers with manure
- • Scientists make it cheaper to confuse & prevent crop pests
- • Athi River company introduces plastic grain silos doubling grain shelf life
- • Prices of key agri-commodities expected to decline-CBK report
- • Tharaka Nithi poultry farmer abandons antibiotics for papaya & moringa mix
- • Why it is more profitable to sell onions immediately after harvest than store
- • Naivasha farm offers Africa’s only tractor operation vocational training
- • Nakuru flower farm turns tonnes of waste into biogas with innovative tech
- • Busia fish farm uses flies to make 30% cheaper & healthier feed
- • 60% of farmers predict increased harvest owing to low-cost fertiliser--CBK Report
- • Kisumu’s Sh 30B investment seeks to turn county into agriculture hub
- • Poultry shampooing: final resort for severe parasite infestation
- ► September (49)
- • Silkworm farming earns farmers up to Sh1.8M an acre
- • Camels produce 3X more milk for farmers in Kenya’s Arid North
- • Sexual trapping to mitigate fall armyworm menace
- • Planned vaccination averts chicken death
- • Why farmers should gradually introduce new feed to avoid fall in production
- • Proper planning doubles pea farmer incomes
- • Agripreneur finds food fortification market for invasive weed
- • Scientists argue urine best fishond fertiliser
- • Study shows organic potential in uplifting farmer income & health
- • The value of farm visits in upping your farming game
- • Fact sheet on commercial kienyeji chicken management
- • Kirinyaga sweet potato farmers resort to irrigation to maintain yields
- • Cattle diets to ensure optimum milk production over dry period
- • Staple food prices to remain high through 2022
- • Government mulls contracted yellow maize farming to reduce feed cost
- • Government avails Sh3,500 subsidized fertiliser through NCPB depots
- • Vegetable drying helps farmers keep produce for up to 8 months
- • Kisii maize farmer grows fast maturing yellow maize to curb disease losses
- • Small-scale potato farmers resort to stick harvesting to curb waste
- • Innovative device informs farmers when to irrigate avoiding nutrient loss
- • Legume inter-cropping doubles traditional crop performance
- • Easy methods of limiting beans losses after harvest
- • The value of bees in raising crop yield
- • Hybrid solar & drier saves farm post-harvest losses
- • Hanging gardens helping urbanites reduce vegetable costs
- • Fruit farming boon to drought hit farmers
- • Solar milk pasteurizer improves smallholder farmer profits
- • Bomet graduate transforming agriculture through technological innovation
- • Kiambu dairyman raises milk output, reduces treatment costs via breeding
- • Automated fruit drying machine points farmers to ripe profits
- • Diagnosing and treating diarrhea in calves
- • Farmers move closer to Nairobi to earn max profit
- • Maasai herder employs confined feeding to avert drought losses
- • Karen garden turns ornamental bird breeding farm to tourist attraction
- • Sh127M potato project to double farmer yields
- • Embu trader looking for 10M Tonnes of cassava for export to China
- • Nyandarua vegetable growers get a better deal through group farming
- • Kiambu spinach farmer earns max profit by avoiding brokers
- • Kuria farmer makes success of cattle rearing despite challenges
- • Mombasa farmer turns rooftop garden into moneymaker
- • Sh3M grant open to Kenyan SMEs practicing agri-recycling
- • Weekly roundup of agriculture jobs
- • Uganda agripreneur shining light on avocado value addition
- • Farmers advised to grow drought-resistant crops as weatherman warns of failed short rains
- • Farmer leverages social media for mega sales
- • Legumes improve crop yield by 43% in Africa, scientists prove
- • Small-scale farmers raise incomes 50% with cheap food preservation techniques
- • Molo potato farmer capitalises on seed shortage with 20 acre multiplication farm
- • Kenya agriculture students on 11-month annual Israel internship
- ► August (22)
- • Growing insect protein demand by feed makers provides ready market for farmers
- • USAID invites applicants for Sh600 million African agriculture grant
- • Diabetes diagnosis points Karen resident to soilless agriculture
- • Nyamira farmer triples milk output crossbreeding exotic & indigenous cattle
- • Steep egg prices to persist until October on maize & soya shortage
- • Tea estate to halve spraying costs with drone technology
- • How push-pull technology arrests devastating Fall armyworm, Stemborer & Striga weed
- • WFP: Drought, fertiliser prices, & armyworm drop Kenya’s agri production
- • Sh18M grant enables Garissa farmer establish thriving grass business
- • KALRO manufactures multi-grain thresher to increase farmer profits
- • Ruiru farmer taps demand for goat milk in urban areas
- • Poultry farmer sells flock after production crashes over cold months
- • KALRO establishes facility to control rust disease causing 80% losses
- • The superfruit earning its pioneer farmer Sh2,000 a kilogram
- • Wastage & soaring cooking oil prices point farmers to avocado value addition
- • Agriculture expert devices 30% cheaper feed that boosts animal production
- • Soil testing critical in getting maximum harvest
- • Young agronomist helping beginners navigate farming
- • Maize farmer doubles production by embracing expert advice
- • Isinya farm introduces innovative solar panel farming to E. Africa
- • Chinese traders plan on increasing Kenyan avocado imports
- • New international carbon credit market assist African farmers get loans
- ► July (20)
- • Nonprofit introduces cheaper Pay-As-You-Go model of tractor ownership
- • Nyamira farmer reaps big with shift from coffee to fruits
- • Embu farmers slash energy costs by 40% with coffee husk briquettes
- • Dryland farmers increase milk, lower cost through camel & goat dairy farming
- • Italian firm sets up oilseed plant in Makueni employing 25,000 farmers
- • EABL seeking 4,000 Homa-Bay sorghum growers with ready market
- • Government purchasing 26,710 cattle to freely feed 267,210 households
- • UK gov identifies 3 high-potential products for Kenyan agri exporters
- • Increased transport & permit costs hinder Kenya's agriculture imports
- • Kenya secures Sh7.5B loan for subsidised fertilizer & seeds ahead of short rains
- • Nutrition expert churns traditional vegetables to flour
- • Livestock feed drives up Kenya’s grain imports by 72%
- • Nakuru farmer realise full value from soya through value-addition
- • Drought tolerant Red Maasai sheep insulate farmers from climate change
- • Kenya constructing mango fruit fly treatment facility to access EU markets
- • Why the tiny slimy earthworm improves crop yield by 25%
- • Kenyan honey exporter recruiting 7,000 contracted East Africa farmers
- • Strawberry exporter looking for outgrower farmers
- • Kwale residents trade mangrove cultivation for carbon credits
- • Sh1.75M grant calling for Kenyan agri-tech start-up applicants
- ► June (17)
- • East African farmers harnesses motorbike power for irrigation
- • Reprieve for farmers & consumers as gov suspends maize, animal feed levies
- • How farmer cooperatives help growers triple yields
- • The Sh50 scratchcard pioneering microsinsurance for Kenyan farmers
- • Kilifi farmers unlock mbuyu (baobab) tree potential through value addition
- • Vetiver grass—most cost-efficient soil erosion control doubles crop yield
- • New miraa act demands registration for nursery operators & dealers
- • Soya growing breaths life into dying Mumias soils
- • Machakos farmer's pivot from maize to brachiaria grass multiplies profits
- • Sweet potato curing improves shelf life by 7 months
- • Surrogate brooding increases chicken hatch rate
- • Scientists warn of threat from 120 new pests on Kenya's agriculture
- • Microsoft to deliver agri extension services through farmer’s phones
- • Basic ways to improve soil fertility & health
- • Study: Newcastle vaccination in chicken leads to improved child growth
- • Tilapia fish feeding guide
- • Expected entry of TZ onions into Kenya sees prices dip 12%
- ► May (16)
- • Rising wheat prices provides market opportunities for tuber farmers
- • Kenya's coffee production to dip 10% due to rise in fertiliser costs
- • Kakuzi banks on macadamia & blueberries as avocado business falters
- • Kenya running out of maize & wheat stocks
- • Horticulture directorate revises avocado export harvesting requirements
- • Government approves leasing of idle state land to private farmers
- • Tipping the scales: How greed is killing Kenyan agriculture
- • Innovation sees Zambian farm become Africa’s leader in aquaculture
- • Zero-grazed cattle at 80% less risk of ECF
- • Siaya farmers penetrate export market with little known flower
- • Pastoralists unearth value in devastating weed
- • Local saving associations give farmers cheap, easily accessible credit
- • Poultry farmers seek feed alternatives as prices soar
- • Group buying enables farmers purchase feeds for 20% less
- • “The coffee boom is back”-- Agriculture CS
- • Human urine gives equal crop yields to chemical fertilisers
- ► April (28)
- • Flooding of Ethiopian tomatoes drops prices 40%, onions on the rise
- • NGO looking to train young Kenyan dairy, poultry, livestock agripreneurs
- • Making cheap homemade fertiliser in under 1 week
- • Horn of Africa facing the worst drought in 41 years
- • KCB, USAID Sh100M fund to finance Kenya’s arid livestock farmers
- • Sesame buyers turn to neighbours as Kenyan farmers fail to meet demand
- • Approval of GM soymeal would reduce fish feed costs by 20%
- • Temporary bee hives help farmers utilise limited spaces
- • Progressive feeding after birth maintains milk output
- • Funguses helping farmers fight soil borne diseases
- • Sex trap tame devastating African armyworm
- • Muranga farmer finds lucrative opportunity in turkey farming
- • Farmer groups help dairy goat farmers realise fortunes
- • Molasses and maize bran milk booster doubles milk yield
- • Maize shortage & new taxes predicted to drive up feed cost
- • Timely planting & climate appropriate seeds help improve arid farmer yields
- • Trap cropping: an innovative biological pest control method
- • Farmers look to fruit trees for supplementary income
- • Highland arrowroot offer alternative income for Central farmers
- • Young agripreneur makes big bucks supplying compost to urban growers
- • Communal granaries help farmers preserve produce
- • Rising temperatures lead to proliferation of coffee diseases
- • Liming improves yields of depleted Western Kenya soils
- • Smallholder farmers use trees to fertilize soils & extra income
- • Dairy farmers raise incomes five fold through fodder conservation
- • Waterpans helps farmers weather dry spells
- • Bomet farmer finds value in low cost zero-grazing
- • How to use weeds as a guide on crops to plant
- ► March (13)
- • Ready market & higher returns encourage tobacco farmers shift to beans
- • Maize production to stagnate as fertiliser prices rise & farmers find lucrative alternatives —USDA report
- • Mwea company turns rice waste to 3X cheaper high yield organic fertiliser
- • Kakuzi given green light to export avocado to China
- • Nyamira women get indigenous vegetable market through UN program
- • Kenya leads charge in emergent million-dollar insect farming business
- • 1,000 coffee farmers earn 50% more from direct sales to Korea
- • Fertiliser Crisis: Organic gold manure that doubles farmer yields
- • Standard Chartered launches incubator program for women in agritech
- • KCB invests Sh5M to finance small-scale farmers
- • Fertiliser Crisis: Making compost manure as alternative to store-bought fertilisers
- • Kwale farm using spirulina supercrop to combat endemic malnutrition
- • John Deere competition gifts tractor to Kenyan youth in agriculture
- ► February (20)
- • Russia's invasion of Ukraine to push fertiliser & food prices even higher
- • Migori farmer maximises pineapple yield through row planting
- • Garlic growing serves as natural repellent to over 10 pests
- • Electronic honey extraction saves time and money
- • Legumes reverse decade-long soil degradation
- • Low cost cooler helps farmers preserve produce
- • Information key driver to improved farmer income
- • Mobile app connects farmers to investors/mentors
- • Sex Trap helps reduce damage of deadly Tuta Absoluta
- • Kisii farmer uses mixed poultry farming to keep off predators
- • Adding yeast to livestock feed ups milk output
- • Biological pest controls organically cut 50% in vegetable losses
- • Tree lucerne: Hardy, nutritious fodder that grows for 30yrs
- • Intercropping Napier and desmodium raises milk output
- • Indigenous vegetables provides Narok farmer with steady income
- • Double digging irrigation multiplies vegetable yield
- • Narok farmer quits maize for more lucrative hay farming
- • WFP warns 13M people face severe drought in Kenya, Ethiopia & Somalia
- • KALRO boosts dual-purpose Teff grass production to help arid farmers combat drought
- • How to register for export of banana and broccoli to Korea
- ► January (14)
- • Meru dairy farmer banks on genetics to turn profit as feed costs rise
- • 37 year expert sets up 2 acre coffee farm as perfect retirement plan
- • Marikiti trader helping farmers track and predict agriproduce prices
- • Water helps avoid deaths in day old chicks
- • Teeth clipping key in controlling mastitis in pigs
- • Irregular irrigation causes splitting in tomato farming
- • KFC to buy Kenyan potatoes if farmers meet stringent requirements
- • Managu acts as organic red mite control in other vegetables
- • Thika family farm setting pace in mixed small-scale farming
- • Soil tests crucial for obtaining top yields
- • Low cost charcoal cooler keeps produce fresh for a week
- • Machakos farmer uses simple trenches to supply water 2 months after rains
- • Digicow app connects over 20,000 farmers to extension workers
- • Honey farmer use iron sheet guards to keep off thieving badgers
- ► November (21)
- ► 2021 (256)
- ► December (30)
- • Farmers cash in on rising jackruit demand
- • Drip irrigation allows farmers save 50% in water costs
- • Lari farmer uses onions as biopesticide to control aphids
- • Mulching a key skill to keep your vegetables growing in drier seasons
- • How to deal with deadly Newcastle disease in poultry
- • Fodder grass farming helps supplement farmer incomes
- • Improved bee hives key to raising farmer incomes
- • Hermetic bags keep off grain pests for over 2 years
- • Siaya farmers triple milk output with switch to Brachiaria grass
- • Nyeri farmer saves over Sh6000 in irrigation cost with mini dam construction
- • Manual on controlling deadly fall army worms
- • Biovision Trust Training Farmers To Meet Growing Organic Food Demand
- • Online marketplace helping Kenyan nomads avoid perennial losses
- • Kilifi farmer's gamble with ornamental fish farming paying dividend
- • Law graduate builds processing plant to cash in on camel milk demand
- • Shade nets key to unlocking productivity in arid and semi-arid lands
- • Farmer capitalises on growing demand & premium prices for traditional crops
- • How small-scale farmers can make own silage
- • Dual purpose Fleckvieh cow offers mastitis resistance & improved production
- • Family Bank commits Sh6B to agriculture financing
- • Fertiliser prices to hit record peaks owing to external market forces
- • JKUAT graduate turns coconut husks to high-grade planting material
- • Animal scientist help farmers half feed cost from formulating own feed
- • Former security guard earns 10× more through sugarcane value addition
- • Farmers' shift from maize to fish farming nets handsome returns
- • Relay cropping keeps Kiambu French bean farmer earning through the year
- • Coffee pulping cost effective way for smallholder farmers to raise earnings
- • Basic mosquito net an easy guard from pests in nurseries
- • How mango farmers organically reduce whiteflies by over 80%
- • Climbing legumes offer Coastal dairy farmers high protein supplement
- ► November (30)
- • How Kiambu farmer utilises Mexican Marigold weed as home-made fertilizer
- • Kibwezi farmer banks on long term mkwaju farm investment
- • Earthworm obtained liquid offers more nutrients than inorganic fertilizer
- • Former marketer finds success in passion fruit farming
- • Home based systems of reducing aflatoxin in maize
- • Kisumu teacher builds model mixed farm with little savings
- • Busia start-up raises local millet farmer income through value addition
- • Innovative new service helps farm, market produce for 'office farmers'
- • Farm-level cold-storage services double farmer incomes
- • Agri-consultant creates farmer network to help better yields, reach consumers
- • Solar water pump triples farmer incomes
- • Former counselor milks cool cash from dairy goat farming
- • Grafting purple & yellow passion fruit eradicates deadly fusarium wilt
- • Home made remedy for deadly mange disease in goats
- • Intercropping maize & sunflower reduces bird damage, improves soil fertility
- • Mwea rice farmer's journey from casual labourer to millionaire
- • How to prevent mortality in day old chicks
- • Hand-held multiuse tractor saves farmers over Sh1K/acre tillage costs
- • Makueni mango farmer raises income through cooperative
- • Desuckering helps Mwea banana farmer avoid mango season losses
- • Hass avocado earn farmers premium in international markets
- • KCB to increase agriculture lending & issue Kenya’s first Green Bond in 2022
- • Kenya in talks to begin meat export to Egypt
- • Farmers demand improved maize prices from NCPB to match production cost
- • Gov’t announces rise in sugar buying price
- • Mango export prices up over 5× after Kenya lifts self imposed EU ban
- • Agriculture Development Corporation imports 19 S.A bulls to raise semen output
- • Government steps up pyrethrum farming revival issuing 500,000 seedling to Nakuru farmers
- • Agriculture social coding event seeks digitised solutions in indigenous vegetable value chain
- • Genetic improvement creates high performing "Improved Boran"
- ► October (38)
- • Kajiado farmer slashes poultry production cost through homemade hydroponic meal
- • 200 Kenya agriculture students get 11 month Israel internship
- • Fact sheet on controlling deadly potato cyst nematodes
- • Conservation agriculture halves ploughing costs while preserving soils
- • How to get your hands on affordable second hand EU tractors
- • Kichawi Kill offers farmers first biological control of deadly striga weed
- • Former hawker helps farmers rake in garlic millions
- • Kakamega organisation enlisting Mukombero growers
- • Pig rearing helps Kakamega farmer break down organic waste to manure
- • Kilifi farmer tastes sweet returns from low production cost pineapple
- • Meru potato farmer doubles earnings through innovative storage
- • Water harvesting enables savvy farmers sell produce at peak prices
- • Hybrid Super Napier grass yields 4× regular varieties
- • High feed costs leave Kenya reliant on fish imports
- • Farming "fallback" option bears dividend for Nandi livestock farmer
- • Young farmer cuts lucrative niche in offering organic farming solutions
- • Certified potato seeds double farmer's yield
- • Kakamega farmer raises yields with homemade organic fertilizer solution
- • Immigrants drive up demand for African vegetables abroad
- • South Sudan okra demand triples farmer income
- • Uasin Gishu dairy farmer raises earnings by adding higher butterfat Ayrshire milk
- • Government promises tea farmers better prices next year with new reforms
- • Nakuru farmers get avocado, macadamia markets & cheap loans from new program
- • Mariakani breeder capitalises on Brahma chicken rarity in Kenya
- • Kenyan nut manufacturers seek local farmers as import costs soar
- • Little upkeep, lucrative returns: Why galla goats are a perfect side venture
- • 700+ Laikipia women find employment in cacti & aloe value addition
- • Bamboo Association of Kenya looks to get farmers growing, earning from bamboo
- • Former researcher finds her fortunes by returning to farming roots
- • Kenya looks to Djibouti for miraa market as Somalia's ban bites
- • Kenya waste-to-value company enlisting farmers to earn from black soldier flies
- • Automated tea picking machine helps farmers halve production costs & improve quality
- • Israeli AgriTech company brings digital irrigation to 500K Kenyan small-scale maize growers
- • How mixed vegetable farming keeps Meru farmer earning through the year
- • How Limuru farmer earns Sh9,000 weekly from 40*100 managu plot
- • Uni student helps family save on daily vegetable costs with 8 x 6 garden
- • Uasin Gishu farmer's switch from passions to tree tomato earns Sh2M/Year
- • Kenyan start-up reduces fishing costs by a quarter with e-boat
- ► September (31)
- • Meru potato farmers increase yields fourfold through conservation agriculture
- • Government tea reforms lead to record 40% price rise
- • Machakos breeder improves genetics of local dorper sheep with SA imports
- • Kasarani firm offers mushroom farmers training and buy back program
- • EU project trains, links young farmers to export markets for in demand crops
- • ABE chillies offer farmers sweet returns
- • Kenyan farmers tap into foreign nationals snail appetite
- • Catfish farmers opt for concrete ponds to curb cannibalism and hasten growth
- • Kiambu medium-scale farmer rakes in millions from flowers
- • Kitui mango farmer doubles harvest through grafting
- • Muranga French bean farmers balloon incomes with group contract farming
- • Poultry farmer slashes feeding cost with maggot meals
- • Cost effective ways of improving soil fertility & prevent soil borne pests & diseases
- • Eldoret seed propagator develops passion fruit yielding 3 times existing varieties
- • Farmers can double earnings with hass avocados
- • Former pilot helps farmers raise profits with drone aided agriculture
- • Data-driven farming helps raise yields & lower risk
- • Kenyan insurer gives small-scale farmers cover for under Sh1000
- • Kiserian farm offers pay as you learn training to young agriculturalists
- • How to reduce pig feed costs with homemade sweet potato silage
- • New drought-tolerant forage pearl millet an answer for arid dairy farmers
- • Kericho farmer builds model dairy unit after moving from open field to zero-grazing
- • Extension network helping farmers farm & market their crop
- • Milk booster increases output by 7 litres
- • Organisation equipping small-scale arid farmers with skills & tools to store fodder
- • How farmers are employing hemp's high to heal soils
- • Pakistan ready to import Kenyan mangoes
- • 1300+ Isiolo pastoralists benefit from Sh128 million fund
- • New potato farming handbook released by Dutch embassy & Agriculture Ministry
- • African Union developing genetically modified crop guidelines
- • USAID launch project combating soil acidity to improve maize yields
- ► August (24)
- • Kenya facing 360M kilogram fish deficit
- • Microsoft to boost small-scale African farmer incomes through digital training
- • Kenya to increase coffee exports to South Korea
- • Sh1bn Vipingo factory a boon to cashew nut farmers
- • Fact sheet on sweet potato farming
- • Online marketplace opens for banana, tuber & root crop farmers
- • Mazao recruiting organic horticulture outgrowers
- • Mango flakes exporter helps farmers reduce seasonal losses
- • Integrating trees into farms offers extra income & regenerates soils
- • Desmodium and Napier diet raises milk yield
- • NCPB opens storage facilities to wheat farmers to help mitigate losses
- • Farmers develop disease & drought-tolerant coffee varieties through grafting
- • Sh 5.1B agribusiness fund calling for 2400 women & youth applicants
- • Farmers warn EU pesticide policy will cripple Kenyan agriculture
- • Homa Bay fish farm helping cure Kenya's Chinese fish dependence
- • Reopened Isiolo airport provides export opportunity to fresh produce farmers
- • State constructing Lamu livestock pre-export zone to tap export market
- • Student founded app empowers farmers through market access & farming info
- • Varsity helping farmers unlock snail farming's untapped potential
- • Government working to avail affordable dairy feeds to farmers
- • KALRO develops new cashew nuts yielding 4× existing varieties
- • Kenya seeks Chinese fish import ban to protect local fishers
- • Mumias arrowroot farmer adopts value addition to improve earnings & provide employment
- • KALRO develops potato varieties with longer after harvest shelf life
- ► July (19)
- • Poor Kenyan farmers adopt digital currency to raise their economic output
- • Young Timau farmer moves from joblessness to earning Sh100,000 from garlic
- • Government to increase minimum milk buying price to boost production
- • Kenyan agritech startup raises farmer incomes 170% by value addition & streamlined market access
- • How a Laikipia farmer is healing depleted soils through poultry keeping
- • Malaa farmer turns his kid's rabbit keeping hobby into thriving business
- • New platform helps link avocado farmers to local and export buyers
- • The golden tuber: How arrowroot farming has transformed a Kakamega farmer’s life
- • Kirinyaga County seeks to reduce farmer post-harvest losses with 4 new markets
- • Kenya introduces Mark of Quality for local vegetables and fruits
- • Coffee farmers to earn more with increased participation in its trade
- • US African Development Foundation opens 2021 agricultural grant application
- • Potato seed supplier introduces new early maturing, drought-tolerant variety
- • Kenya Dairy Board 2021 study shows dairy farming remains profitable
- • Ministry of agriculture sets up Sh48M credit fund for miraa farmers
- • Farmers grapple with failed crop as rains fail
- • Organisation to train more farmers to meet growing organic food demand
- • Farmers flock back to dairy farming as new reforms lead to record prices
- • Relief for farmers/traders as counties agree to stop double taxation
- ► June (12)
- • New highly nutritious Mombasa grass an option for arid farmers
- • Bomet County begins direct tea sales to Iran, offering farmers improved prices
- • UK couple capitalise on Kenyan diaspora demand for traditional vegetables
- • Kenya approves cultivation of world’s first disease-resistant GM cassava
- • Kenya's first sweet potato processing plant to raise Migori farmer’s earnings
- • New freely available Fall Armyworm control measures reduce pest by 50%
- • Kenya is hurtling towards starvation on agricultural policy set by non-experts
- • Smallscale farmers exempt from new potato regulation penalties
- • KALRO embarks on program to deliver superior dairy goat breeds to farmers
- • Tukalime: innovative service helping 'telephone farmers' farm & market produce
- • Kenyan startup raises farmer incomes 50% with mobile cold storage service
- • Kakamega organisation recruiting Mukombero farmers to supply 100T/year German market
- ► May (21)
- • Advanta Seeds introduce disease resistant, high yield Raja F1 tomato
- • Kenyan AgriTech startup helps farmers raise yields & lower risk using data-driven farming
- • Kenya Railways resumes livestock transport on Nairobi-Nanyuki line
- • KALRO train farmers on growing improved macadamia yielding 7X traditional varieties
- • IT specialist helps farmers acquire 2nd hand EU tractors at half the cost of new ones
- • Kakuzi commits Sh400M on upscaling smallholder avocado farmers
- • New feeding technology helps farmers add 2.3L milk daily
- • 80 ton of Kakuzi Hass avocado sets sail from inaugurated Lamu port
- • Farmers use hemp plant to increase soil fertility & as high protein fodder
- • Europe taking on the world to lock out agriculture
- • App helps farmers remotely manage & hire tractors
- • Scientists introduce 12 superior performing disease & drought tolerant maize varieties
- • Narok farm breeds Sahiwal for arid farmers seeking high producing cows
- • Local & export demand for orange fleshed sweet potato grows with superfood classification
- • Kiambu farmer increases yields with homemade weed fertilizer
- • 4,000 western Kenya farmers get training & market from Farm Africa project
- • New drought tolerant forage pearl millet increases milk by 30%
- • Busia food processing company improves millet farmer earnings through value addition
- • Livestock researchers use gene editing to eradicate sleeping sickness
- • Kenya Meat Commission begins direct livestock purchases
- • Genetically modified Bt cotton pilot farmers report increased yields & profits
- ► April (20)
- • Kenyan insurer buoys smallscale farmers with low-cost insurance
- • KALRO commercializes grass varieties that increase milk by 15 to 40 %
- • Meru sunflower farmers get ready market from climate adaptation project
- • Kitengela poultry farmer reduces cost by 40% with hydroponic feed
- • Kakuzi offering avocado farmers free fruit maturity testing services
- • Njoro farmers initiate receipt system giving growers better prices & credit
- • Tomato farmers reap ripe returns as shortage bites, prices soar
- • Family Bank, USAID Sh500M project to finance agribusinesses in 17 counties over 1 year
- • Feed manufacturers, cereal growers deal could reduce feed costs by 50%
- • Ngara company selling double barrel planter, 5X faster than traditional planting methods
- • Agritech startup giving market to small-scale banana, pumpkin, sweet potato, arrowroot & yam growers
- • Fertilizer manufacture enlisting organic farmers to supply ready market
- • Mumias farmer mints millions supplying underserved arrowroot market
- • New Improved Solo Sunrise pawpaw doubles farmer yields
- • Study: Misperceived fertilizer quality lowering yields of Kenyan, TZ farmers
- • Mbita start-up reduces fishing costs by 25% with electric boat
- • Potato farmers to double yield with new imported short-season varieties
- • Government directive increases sugarcane buying price by 10%
- • Rise in fuel prices drives up farming costs by 30%
- • Machakos breeder improves local in demand dorper sheep genetics with imports
- ► March (15)
- • EU Project creates export market for mango farmers in 12 counties
- • Garlic scarcity moves Nyeri farmer from hawker to building Saumu Empire
- • Limuru farmer banks in on Kenyans growing managu appetite
- • Safaricom Foundation Youth in Agribusiness programme funds 800 farmers in Kajiado
- • Kenyan traders now opt for UG/TZ cheaper, available animal feeds
- • Silage bags give small scale farmers pasture for drought period
- • KALRO introduces millet yielding 3X traditional varieties & marketing program
- • Kenyan mango farmers resume exports to lucrative European market
- • Kilifi farmer banks on pineapples as season’s low-cost money maker
- • Marketer creates online platform helping farmers find ready goat market
- • Farmers half costs with ripper ploughing in conservation agriculture
- • Why Europe wants Africa to end crop protection in case science one day shows it’s harmful
- • Farmers cash in on emerging hay and cattle delivery sub-sector
- • Switching passions for tree tomatoes earns Uasin Gishu farmer 2M/year
- • 1Acre Nyasi program—giving livestock farmers tools to repel drought
- ► February (4)
- ► January (12)
- • Former KQ pilot uses drones to help farmers increase yields & cut cost
- • New international markets opening up for African vegetables
- • Rising jackfruit popularity changes fortune for farmers
- • Biogas brings clean energy solution to pastoralist homestead
- • Solar insect light trap organically reduces pests by 80%
- • Drough tolerant sugargraze sorghum increases milk output 30%
- • 300+ extension network helps farmers hack farm to market value chain
- • Boda boda powered coffee pulper increases processing capacity eightfold
- • New Mkulima Wonder passion fruit yields 3X more than traditional varieties
- • CABI launches papaya mealybug farmer education program
- • Nanyuki farmer sets up grocery and home delivery to maximize profits
- • FarmBiz TV:Narok farmer making Sh100K profits in 3 months from potatoes
- ► December (30)
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- ► December (18)
- • Kenya’s potato council increases multiplication centers to meet acute shortage
- • Farmers earn 2x from white onions, as red prices tumble
- • Vet soars in goat milk sales by cracking marketing and logistics
- • Farmers build forage reserves ahead of forecast January drought
- • Njiru start-up training and buying back mushrooms from farmers
- • Kakamega farmer raises yields 30% with homemade EMAS solution
- • ICIPE releases wasp to control Tuta Absoluta pest that causes 100% tomato damage
- • Farmers to earn more as agri-commodity prices increase into new year
- • Shade nets half water usage; improve productivity 30% for arid farmers
- • Banana farmer avoids mango season losses through desuckering
- • Poor Chinese ginger harvest provides opportunity to new ginger exporters
- • The Kenyan farmers pioneering dragon fruit farming—the Sh1000/kg fruit
- • Kitui flakes exporter gives mango farmers ready market
- • Water reservoirs enable farmers earn a premium and halve production costs
- • Herb exporter guarantees market for chilli, ginger, garlic contracted farmers
- • Nairobi rabbit buyer recruiting 2000 farmers to meet supply shortfall
- • KALRO launches drought resistant rice, doubles basmati yield
- • Farmers use salt and ash to tackle deadly foot and mouth
- ► November (20)
- • Eldoret company develops tea picking device halving production costs
- • Supporting Zambian farmers as wheat blast strikes
- • FarmBiz TV:Kalro creates fast-maturing, drought-tolerant cassava, doubling arid yields
- • Processor guarantees prices for organic and traditional outgrowers
- • FarmBiz TV:Farmer rears earthworms for organic fertilizer that raises yields 50 per cent
- • Dairy farmers enjoy record year milk prices
- • FarmBiz TV:Bracharia grass triples yields for Bungoma dairy farmer
- • FarmBiz TV: Company trains 1000+ youth on innovative hydroponic farming
- • Bean prices soar as govt pushes 4x yielders
- • FarmBiz TV:Kisumu farmer earns Sh60,000 a month from tree nursery seedlings
- • KALRO trialing fungal resistant tomato, cuts 10% of losses
- • Kibirichia farmer lifts potato earnings 50% with storage and off-season sales
- • Government calls for youth agri-preneur applicants
- • Proper planting for over 10 tonnes from acre of sweet potatoes
- • Ginneries rekindle cotton's glory with hybrid variety
- • Nyeri County launches free farmer call center
- • Kisumu farmer triples income through Okra value addition for export
- • Tomato prices hit year low across the country.
- • Groundnut manufacturers seek farmers to plug country’s nut deficit
- • Digital marketplace enrolling farmers to meet global demand
- ► October (26)
- • Factsheet: Calf to cow expert feeding guide for maximum milk—Part 2
- • Factsheet: Calf to cow expert feeding guide for maximum milk—Part 1
- • Nandi farmer’s politics failure births 200 chickens, 70 sheep farm
- • Farmer increases eggs 60% with homemade azolla plant protein
- • Halt in miraa exports grounds Sh16M daily trade
- • Global avocado demand projected to double by 2024.
- • Amiran hosting annual 70% off yard sale on 31st Oct-1st Nov
- • Kiambu farmer cuts lucrative niche in vermicomposting
- • Simlaw seeds introduce black rot tolerant Chairman F1 cabbage
- • FarmBiz TV:Anna F1 hybrid tomato variety emerges front runner in the Kenyan market
- • Nyandarua farmer rakes in Sh5M a season from craspedia flowers
- • FarmBiz TV:Rearing New Zealand rabbit earns student Sh45k per month
- • Nakuru company importing multifunctional 150kg/hour grain thresher
- • Association gets farmers growing and earning from bamboo
- • Africa and Asia’s Food Security ‘Tipping Point’ & the Hope for Collaborative Solutions this World Food Day
- • Laikipia trust employs 700+ women processing cacti and aloy
- • FarmBiz TV:High-yielding and adaptable Red haven peach variety earns Sh15,000 per tree
- • Institute pioneers banana paper use in managing potato cyst nematodes
- • Nakuru company hiring compost makers countrywide
- • Nyeri farmer cuts cabbage production cost to just 2 bob
- • Kilifi farmer unable to meet growing brahma chicken demand
- • FarmBiz TV:Biochar organic fertilizer gives 50% to 70% yield increase
- • Kericho farmer builds model dairy unit milking 520 litres daily
- • FarmBiz TV:Nanyuki farmer increases income tenfold from a rare bird
- • Black Soldier Fly grower enlisting farmers to earn income
- • 22 year old student uses 8 x 6 garden to keep family fed
- ► September (19)
- • Farmers rearing catfish in 3 x 4M greenhouse yield tonne in 9 months
- • Sh37.5M project to help women dairy farmers access markets
- • FarmBiz TV:Aloe- vera earns Kericho farmer Sh1.8 m per year
- • Exporter urgently seeking for ABE chilli farmers
- • FarmBiz TV:Grafted guava tree earns Sh2K per tree in a season
- • Isinya farm cuts middlemen with 64 member WhatsApp group
- • New Yarra app helps farmers identify plant nutrient deficiency
- • FarmBiz TV:Red Valencia groundnut variety doubles yields compared to ancient varieties
- • Livestock consultant introduces milk booster increasing output by 7L
- • Amiran introduces 4-6 weeks soil PH adjuster
- • FarmBiz TV:Vanilla prices soars for pioneering Kenyan farmers
- • Former researcher making Sh450K in tomato sales
- • KALRO selling 45 Kg disease tolerant tissue culture banana
- • KMFRI develops 13 new fish products and farmer training
- • FarmBiz TV:Yellow-fleshed sweet potato earns farmer Sh1500 more
- • Yara fertiliser program increases maize yield two-fold
- • Muranga based company looking for rabbit meat suppliers
- • FarmBiz TV:Grafted Anna apple variety earns farmers Sh3k per tree in a season.
- • Youth in Agriculture: 25-year-old consultant creates 900-farmer information network
- ► August (32)
- • Misdiagnosis is a perilous basis for banning crop protection, as Europe proves for us all
- • Farmers’ Friend: Behavioural traits to avoid in dairy cattle
- • Nakuru farmer giving free rabbits and cages to youth to start farming
- • FarmBiz TV:Low supply increases red bulb onion price to Sh120 per kilo in Mombasa
- • BIDCO opens books for contract farmers and feed distributors
- • Kenya’s deadliest goat disease costing nearly Sh1/4m per 100 goats in Turkana
- • FarmBiz TV:Farmer invents underground wick irrigation saving water and time for dry land farmers
- • Farmers’ Friend: controlling yellow sigatoka (yellowing disease) in bananas
- • Training farm delivers 1,000 agricultural interns a year and innovation hub
- • Youth take learning to the farm to earn in Coronavirus school closure
- • Diet is critical to cow health in weeks before calving
- • FarmBiz TV:Pixie fruit earns Sh600k per season, with all-year round ready market
- • Farmers Friend: organic remedies for early blight
- • FarmBiz TV:Programme drives up EA kiwi supply with farmer contracts and training
- • Farmers’ Friend: Capsicum planting guide
- • This is what the colour codes on pesticide labels mean
- • An acre of ginger delivers Sh250,000 profits in six months
- • FarmBizAfrica launches open marketplace for farmers
- • Farmbiz TV: Lemons ride up, with limes, on Covid health buying
- • Youth farmer: student gets cabbages moving on WhatsApp
- • Demand for boer goats outstrips local market and breeders
- • Eggs move to short supply after culls of hens by farmers during Covid lockdown
- • KCB sets out to launch 28,000 greenhouses for youth to earn a living
- • Search for Covid-19 immunity drives limes to 10x the price
- • Drip irrigation reduces water consumption for Kiambu farmer by 50 per cent
- • FarmBizAfrica announces vertical farming winners
- • Smallholders get new, professional spraying service from Sh50 a farm to ensure safe pesticide use
- • Glamourous photo shoots do not change the reality of Africa’s harsh pest load
- • Mum cuts food costs 80 % within two months by farming in Jerri cans
- • FarmBiz TV:Murang’a 20 macadamia delivers triple yields for farmers
- • FarmBiz TV:Flood irrigation triples Eggplant fruit size and income
- • Kikuyu resident proves vertical farming can feed urban families and create income
- ► July (30)
- • Artist farmers create urban farm hub from sacks and old plastic
- • FarmBiz TV:Nantes hybrid carrot emerges as front runner in Kenyan market
- • Farmers’ Friend: the inside-track on growing vanilla in Kenya
- • 25 Muranga farmers earn Sh20m a year from French beans through group export contract
- • Government and industry fast-track measures to save flower industry from EU-banned moth
- • FarmBiz TV:Farmer grows fast acre of okra to make Sh6k in profits a day
- • Counties assign ‘digital’ extension officers up to 10,000 farmers each
- • Kwale farmer looking to make Sh8 million a year from vanilla farming
- • FarmBiz TV:Kiboko farmer finds fortunes in Bird’s Eye chilli,vows not to plant anything else.
- • Farmers suffer milk collapse on changing cows’ environment
- • FarmBiz TV:Intercropping Hass and Fuerte avocadoes can earn more than double yields .
- • Farmer harnesses rabbit urine for compost, fertiliser and pest control
- • Velvet bean delivers maize magic, increasing yields 100 to 1000 per cent
- • FarmBiz TV:Farmer deploys vertical farming to get pest-free vegetables for daughter’s medical needs.
- • Emali farmer sets up a Sh5m a year retirement with an acre of Tamarind
- • Agricultural extension juggles farmers’ enquiries in a demand-driven service
- • FarmBiz TV:Green sprouting broccoli offers double yields.
- • Kakamega farmer cuts poultry feed costs 2/3rds by maggot breeding
- • Fact Sheet: physical traits of a good dairy cow
- • FarmBiz TV:Homabay farmer ditches amaranth for Chia making Sh60k in 3 months.
- • Moringa trees deliver cure-all health food and earnings for Kilifi farmers
- • Ministry of Agriculture gives kitchen garden kits to a million households to create food security
- • FarmBiz TV:Grano peas earns Narok farmer Sh240,000 in two and half months.
- • Ngong farmer discovers asparagus, vows not to plant anything else
- • Farmbiz Market Place
- • Second-hand tractors open lower cost route for Kenyan farmers to mechanise
- • One Acre Fund lends Elgeyo Marakwet farmers inputs in deal with county
- • FarmBiz TV:IT graduate earns double income and slashes input costs.
- • Farmer’s friend: getting top yields for cabbage
- • Innovator: farmer fills cement bags to create a mountain of food
- ► June (30)
- • FarmBiz TV: Coriander/Dhania, a fast-growing crop, enjoys all year round ready market.
- • FarmBiv TV:Farmer earns 525k per season from adopting the modern vertically shaped langstroth bee hive.
- • Galla goats deliver Sh40k+ each in nine months for semi-arid farmers
- • Kabete farmer moves into all-year, organic strawberries through vertical farming
- • FarmBiz TV:Coffee husk fertiliser lifts farmers’ yields by a third.
- • FarmBiz TV:Mushrooms from beginner to advanced create higher earnings with more skills.
- • FarmBizAfrica is recruiting freelance reporters and researchers
- • Self-help group learns pineapples in Nyeri break away from low-earning coffee
- • Exporter equips Kenyan farmers to supply it strawberries for Middle East
- • FarmBiz TV:Hydroponic farming doubles yields in fast route to food security.
- • Kiambu solar driers give farmers Sh10k extra on crops from value addition
- • FarmBiz TV:Custard apple shrubs offer Sh3k+ low-maintenance extra cash.
- • Kenya’s bread stays foreign on local wheat challenges from bird attacks to subsidized imports
- • FarmBiz TV:Pears need cold, but grown high can make millions.
- • Hermetic bags transform grain storage, cutting costs, losses and aflatoxin
- • FarmBiz TV:Health food Blueberry delivers Sh8m+ a year per acre.
- • Neem demand triples, but Kenya slow to expand as India and China seize chances
- • Nyamira County farmer ends FAW plague to get biggest ever crop for 2020
- • Farmbiz competition: Sack farming innovators
- • FarmBiz TV: A Pepino melon acre earns 80k a month.
- • Flower freight still less than European demand seeing crops manured
- • FarmBiz TV:Mighty jackfruit is a Sh250k-a-year tree in Mombasa.
- • Fact sheet: Propagating and harvesting mint
- • FarmBiz TV:Farmer leaves knives for Sh12m a year from garlic and ginger.
- • Coronavirus has stress-tested our food systems, and many are set to fail
- • FarmBiz TV:Pomegranate bushes earn Sh7.5k per season.
- • Factsheet: A-Z of posho mill types and prices
- • FarmBiz TV : Green grams,fast maturing with low water demand enjoys a ready market all year round.
- • Some farmers pay 1/5th for boreholes on better drilling prices
- • Laikipia farmer switches half acre to Sh200k-a-month mint farming
- ► May (27)
- • Govt issuing e-vouchers for 60% of fertiliser, chemicals for smallholders
- • FarmBiz TV: Grafted orange trees deliver higher quality fruits faster.
- • Arrowroot prices nearly double in 5 years on surging demand for traditional foods
- • FarmBiz TV : Unexploited potential of dolichos/Njahi bean.
- • Njeru Industries shakes up tea buying with fast payments
- • FarmBiz TV : Tissue-culture banana yield double the ancient breeds.
- • Wedding garden farmer saves Sh8,000 a month with solar pump
- • Markets
- • Tools
- • Smart Farms
- • News to Raise Yields
- • Water tanks offer health and savings for rural homes
- • COVID Fund delivers free agronomist tests and advice for farmers
- • FarmBiz TV: Grapes are earning a place as a new crop in Kenya for local wines.
- • FarmBiz TV: Green pepper delivers quality sales through long season and resilience.
- • Farmers get fast-track aflatoxin tests to save crops as shortage looms
- • Farmers cut mango losses by a third with home-made brick coolers
- • Coffee fund launches pre-crop finance for smallholders
- • Tea industry beats clock picking and transporting in daylight
- • Cookie Policy
- • Transport problems slashing Kenyan fresh exports, despite demand in Europe
- • Terms and Conditions
- • Fact sheet: Getting a COVID-19 test result letter for drivers to visit or cross borders
- • FarmBiz TV: Green maize offers fast route to harvest as shortage looms
- • Fact Sheet: How farmers can get a permit to transport food through the lockdowns and curfew
- • Journalist farmer pioneers CCTV-surveyed farming, reports jump in produce and connection
- • Fact sheet: Coffee pulping to lift smallholder earnings 6x
- ► April (25)
- • Capsicum farmer reports sales savaged by missing flights to Asia, and closed manufacturers
- • Fast action needed to head off ‘biblical’ famine
- • FarmBiz TV: Chicken farmer earns Sh1m in 21 days rearing chicks
- • 70% of Kenyan food locked out of Nairobi, forcing rural prices to nosedive
- • FarmBiz TV: Kalro launches drought tolerant soya bean variety (SB19) doubling earnings.
- • Poll shows Kenyans worried about Coronavirus food shortages
- • Industry has pesticides ready for locust spraying, as swarms threaten on delays
- • Farmers find Coronavirus business in helping entrants and adding home delivery
- • Farmers gain financial support from banks as COVID-19 bites hard
- • FarmBiz TV: Butternut offers security with all-year steady pricing
- • Planning crops to fit the weather forecast delivers certain wealth, claim farmers
- • Farmers hold off locusts with neem in hope of timely government spraying
- • Predict the weather, make tomato fortunes
- • FarmBiz TV: Irrigation Board launches rice scheme to double yields.
- • FarmBiz TV: Farmers called to plant to feed through COVID-19
- • Fact Sheet: Best rabbit varieties for meat breeding in Kenya – Part 2
- • New deals for food transport will deliver food security
- • FarmBiz TV :Amaranth/Mchicha farmers raise earnings by picking weed for cash and producing seeds.
- • Factsheet: Selecting the best breeding rabbits for meat – Part 1
- • Factsheet: Selecting the best breeding rabbits for meat – Part 1
- • FarmBiz TV :Cucumbers offer fast cash route for squeezed farmers.
- • FarmBiz TV :Cucumbers offer fast cash route for squeezed farmers.
- • Organic plus foliar fertilizer
- • FarmBiz TV: KALRO and UoN launch drought and pest-resistant bean, Kenya mali
- • Star farmer: 20-year expert earns millions in mixed farming on 4 acres
- ► March (17)
- • Fact Sheet: Common rabbit diseases and their treatment
- • Kilifi farmer triples cassava yield through minisett multiplication technique
- • Food must be a critical priority in defining what’s ‘essential’
- • Government draws up new regulations on pest control safety labelling
- • Dairy farmer shares lessons learnt after recovering from near shut-down
- • Nairobi farmer's foray into ornamental birds business pays off
- • Banana farmers find value in neem as botanical pesticide against black weevil
- • Biologist changing Maasai community fortunes through beekeeping enterprise
- • Kenya moves to reopen air cargo flights
- • Mushrooms sales suffer sudden drop on hospitality close-down
- • Fresh Produce exporters scramble for cargo space as flights cancelled
- • Mango farmers create jar trap to end whitefly destruction
- • Experts advise farmers to form groups for certification of organic exports
- • Experts advise farmers to form groups for certification of organic exports
- • Strawberry runners from certified nurseries offer farmers a kilo a year
- • Pumpkin farmers solve overproduction problems by producing oil and flour
- • Insect nets can protect crops from desert locusts
- ► February (30)
- • UNIDO launches workshops to position more smallholders as horticultural exporters
- • Technical college sets up students as hydroponic farmers for free
- • Kenya launches all-inclusive agricultural alliance with leaders’ summit
- • Fact Sheet: homemade concentrate to replace commercial rabbit feed
- • Carrefour opens door to farmers groups to be supermarket suppliers
- • KALRO partners with buyer Coca Cola to commercialise new passion fruit
- • Financial services company offers new loan access for exporting farmers
- • Rabbit keeping opens route to organic farming, fertiliser and pest control
- • Sunculture offers pay-as-you-go solar pumps that experts say can triple profits
- • Mombasa farmer builds rabbit business on discounts
- • JKUAT develops snail by-products to spur Brown Snail farming in Kenya
- • Banker-turned-farmer creates profits through relay planting to create constant harvest
- • Farmer nearly triples egg earnings selling for hatching instead of food
- • Upfield seeks up to 3,000 farmers to grow canola seeds
- • Fact sheet: how to make a vertical sack garden
- • Elgeyo-Marakwet invests in huge milk coolers to support county milk brand
- • Fact sheet: reliable Avocado buyers and exporters in Kenya
- • Sack farming increases sukuma wiki production 75X in Makueni
- • Ex-Mumias farmers find top earner in pawpaw jam, oil and drinks
- • Banana farmer doubles yields from information-sharing WhatsApp group
- • Internationals drive local demand for snail farming
- • Why Kenya must now learn the meaning of a hazard and of a risk: or die
- • About FarmBiz Society
- • Becoming a FarmBiz Society Agent
- • Pineapple wines and vinegars add high-fashion niches for exporters as demand grows
- • Chia offers Sh1m an acre per year as new wonder crop
- • Garlic farmers earn six times more than regular onion farmers
- • Mango rises as healthy food for Middle East/ US / EU driving accelerating Kenyan exports
- • Wajir youth launches online marketing and vet services for pastoralists
- • Baringo milk farmer adds Sh46,000 a month to income by switching to Boma Rhodes fodder
- ► January (28)
- • Hass avocados earn twofold as compared to other varieties
- • South Africa importer buying tonnes of sesame (simsim) seeds from Kenyan growers
- • Move to ban pesticides being used to curb locusts and Fall Army Worn will lead to crop devastation, warn growers
- • Trans Nzoia farmer ditches maize for French beans, earns more in export market
- • Graduate develops biofuel for household cooking from water hyacinth
- • Urban dweller turns to growing own food to fix ill-health
- • 25 cooperatives behind Nyeri County milk boom
- • State to offer milk market for dairy goat and camel farmers
- • Half a kilo to one kilo increase of dairy meal after calving maintains milk production
- • NYS Tumaini base producing clean potato seeds for farmers using new technology
- • JKUAT selling nine varieties of indigenous vegetables released by KEPHIS
- • Sunken beds reduce frost losses, irrigation costs
- • Tea farmers set to enjoy 50 per cent payments on monthly deliveries
- • New KCC to pay farmers Sh8 more per litre of milk delivered
- • Government intensifies marketing, distribution of Aflasafe to help farmers fight aflatoxin
- • Good news as China cuts export duty levied on Kenya’s avocado from 30 to 7 per cent
- • Government to establish livestock Embryo Transfer facility to boost breeds
- • Nairobi’s Karen farmer bets on unpopular snail farming for cash
- • Combined fungi-based biological spray controls five common crop pests
- • FarmBiz Society open for members
- • Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University paying Sh5,000 per kilogram of crickets
- • Sweet potato vines and roots silage offers livestock more proteins
- • Homa Bay farmer increases earnings twofold with double dug irrigation system
- • Simple farm tool enables farmers maintain soil health, improve yields
- • New board to enable Kenyan farmers market their livestock products globally
- • Ready market available for gadam sorghum variety growers
- • JKUAT researchers discover edible grasshopper that can help farmers grow income
- • Mango and French beans exporter buying the produce from out-growers
- ► December (18)
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- ► December (26)
- • New study: Kenyan avocado farmers can increase income by 39 per cent exporting to EU
- • The introduction of the Kenya Food and Drugs Authority Bill has shown why we need impact assessments for all legislation
- • Farmer finds seine nets safer than hook and bait in fish pond cropping
- • Baringo farmers eye export market with 1.2 tonnes capacity coffee milling plant
- • Seeds of hope transforming lives in northern Uganda
- • Hand-pushed multipurpose tractor saves farmers Sh1000 tillage costs
- • Makueni mango farmer doubles income through team support
- • Creeping legumes triples milk yields in the coastal region
- • Thika company urgently looking for rabbits to meet rising meat demand
- • Kisumu’s Kilimani upmarket offers cassava farmer better prices for value-added products
- • EU moves to increase searches for pests on exports from Friday
- • Chilli exporters eyeing the Middle East to compensate Europe market
- • Herbs and spices marketer looking for chilli out-growers to meet local demand
- • FPC Kenya invites farmers and traders for free training on pesticides and food safety
- • Ruiru youth who dropped medicine course for tomatoes has no regrets
- • Co-operatives helping farmers reach more markets for better prices, income
- • Bidco to upgrade Nakuru animal feed mill to curb rising shortage
- • Nairobi agritech links farmers directly to large produce buying companies
- • Food safety introduced in TVET training to fight foodborne illnesses and deaths
- • Four pesticide regulatory pillars are the route to food security
- • New technology helps fish breeder deliver male fingerlings to farmers in 28 days
- • 1000 Kwale passion fruit farmers turn collection centres into markets to grow income
- • Busia rice farmers receive modern machines to up production
- • Kilifi farmer targets parties with beauty fish to grow income
- • KALRO, EU unveil 2,000 capacity indigenous chicken breeding unit
- • AGRA launches new book on sustainable use of fertiliser
- ► November (45)
- • New KICC to buy 105 million litres surplus milk from farmers
- • Soaring demand for bixa by local hotels excites coastal farmers
- • Kakamega youth group cashing in rare Spirulina farming
- • Homa Bay chilli farmer earning Sh1,000 a day in export
- • Kenyan specialty coffee farmers find market in the US
- • Tana River beekeepers marketing groups taste sweet success with modern equipment
- • Narok farmers cash in the soaring demand for kenbro chicken products to grow income
- • Embu farmers turn dry land into pawpaw production venture, earn Sh300,000 a season
- • Kirinyaga farmers increase earnings threefold selling bananas as a group
- • Limuru farmer targets Chinese with unique cabbage to grow income
- • Varsity students introduce solar-powered tent that keeps agroproduce cool for more than five days
- • Feeding fish homemade feeds more profitable
- • Redworm rearing promises better income for undergraduate
- • Huge milk demand in Busia excites farmers
- • Company links farmers to best inputs to boost production
- • FarmBiz Training Schedule – Q1 2022
- • Agronomist saving part-time farmers investment losses
- • Lamu youth increase earnings fivefold as hotels’ demand for tomatoes soars
- • Kiambu farmer turns his love for fruits into a money minting venture
- • Tharaka Nithi County subsidises artificial insemination services to lower farmers’ cost of production
- • Bungoma farmer taps into rabbit urine and droppings for more income
- • Simple indigenous ways to reduce aflatoxin levels in maize meals
- • Farmbiz inviting you for another training on how to export farm produce
- • Top dressing Rhodes Grass
- • Hydroponic tomato farming offers Juja youth better income
- • Former financial analyst bets on new methods of farming for income and food security
- • Regulator, farmers agree to stop avocado harvesting to avoid trading of immature fruits
- • Vihiga farmers build banana processing plant, provide market for growers
- • Simple net prevents nurserybed from pests’ attack
- • Nairobi online farmer’s market links growers with busy office and home consumers
- • Consumers’ love for ugali drives farmers to grow H614 maize seed developed in 1986
- • Farmers replace maize with fish, harvesting fortunes
- • Njoro farmer taps into water harvesting to increase cultivation area
- • Stakeholders launch $950 million initiative to boost Africa’s coffee industry
- • Pump installation depth pushes more water to farms
- • Silage maker buying yellow maize from all farmers
- • Achieving 300 chicks per year with 10 indigenous (kienyeji) chicken
- • Atlas F1 butternut variety earns Homa Bay farmer Sh92,100 a season
- • 2,907 Tharaka Nithi farmers bet on government water project to grow beetroot, income
- • Uasin Gishu youth group triples household incomes with extension service
- • Market location helps Kiambu farmer manage the highly perishable cucumber
- • Best manure handling practices for maximum crop production
- • Ready market excites over 2,200 Meru farmers to grow bananas
- • Wrapping banana bunch with leaves cut post-harvest losses by 30 per cent
- • Government to launch avocado farming in Nyamira for production and income diversification
- ► October (48)
- • Mulching beats new herbicide restrictions on export products
- • Limuru farmers coop cold rooms helps members keep produce fresh, beating market prices
- • Christmas melon extract cures deadly poultry Newcastle disease, cut farmers’ production costs
- • Simple temporal structures keep bees from disturbances, increase production
- • Government set to promote prawn farming, boost farmers income
- • How to grow, harvest the delicate sugar snap for export
- • Kisii County farmer slashes production costs, using fishpond water for vegetable fertiliser
- • Farmers bet on the cold temperature of Aberdare Forest to rear trout fish
- • Bud-grafting cuts tamarind (mkwaju) maturity period by eight years
- • How to get rainwater harvesting services from Kenya Rainwater Association
- • Where to find mushroom buyers in Kenya as demand soars
- • Fortune beckons for Kirinyaga herbs farmer after abandoning dairy
- • Herbs exporter looking for more farmer groups to meet Dubai market demand
- • How to import breeding goats into Kenya
- • Cameroonian who lost entire stock to bird’s flu and swine fever finds reprieve in pawpaw farming
- • High school dropout earns decent cash form rearing earthworms
- • Quality feeds give pig farmers over 30 per cent more profit
- • How to set a simple vermiculture system for your kitchen garden
- • Agricultural industry alliance supports government's new pesticide legislation
- • Poor coffee prices push Nyamira farmers to pawpaw farming
- • Honey marketer looking for more beekeepers to satisfy the lucrative Arab market
- • Poultry waste increases milk output, earns Kabete farmer double income
- • Farmbiz Africa calls farmers for training on nursery seedlings production
- • Farmer builds camel milk factory, provides market to colleagues
- • Nyeri entrepreneur buying pumpkin seeds from farmers
- • Increased market demand excites Tigoni gooseberry producer
- • Kwale enterprise buying coconut fruits from farmers
- • Low-cost storage method that prevents cowpeas from weevils
- • 40 refugees in Turkana set to up vegetable production after training
- • Relay vegetable farming earns Murang’a farmer over Sh52,000 a month from a quarter plot
- • Fresh produce marketer looking for farmers to grow runner beans to meet export demand
- • Rabbit farming provides stable income for unemployed youth
- • Simple ways to prevent death of newly bought fingerlings and speed up their adaptability
- • Graduates unveil cheap, locally made solar-powered cold-room for preserving fresh farm produce
- • Wick irrigation system saves water and time for farmers
- • How to grow own black soldier larvae for feeding indigenous chicken
- • Voi firm launches cattle cake that improves animals’ growth and milk output
- • Kenya youth set to champion urban farming among the young generation
- • Transiting from subsistence to commercial farming scales up Njoro farmer’s income
- • Graduates helping farmers use pond water as fertiliser, cutting production costs
- • Pumpkin seeds oil extraction doubles income for distressed Nyeri farmer>
- • Social enterprise in need of more farmers and honey to meet local demand
- • How a farmer turned idle land into food basket and income generator
- • Kiambu farmers reduce young chicks’ deaths by half
- • Laikipia farmer saving Sh3,000 monthly on fish feeds by keeping geese
- • Thika farmers grow yields six-fold without fertilizers
- • Reliable market earns Kakamega farmer Sh16,000 a pig in seven months
- • Farmbiz Africa invites farmers and traders for a training workshop on how to export farm produce
- ► September (35)
- • Agritech startup creates farming model, enables both farmers and investors earn from farm proceeds
- • Simple home-made solar chimney dryer increases vegetable shelf-life for over a year
- • Trans Nzoia farmer buys advice on planting distance and fertilizer ratios, doubles yield
- • Nyeri farmer finds full time employment in tree tomato production
- • Busia sorghum farmer records extra yields after using natural pesticides
- • Dubai fresh produce importer looking for avocado, orange and dragon fruits suppliers
- • Elgeyo Marakwet farmer who grows orange fleshed sweet potato to exploit its rich market
- • Homa Bay fish farmers set to increase production and profits with new hatchery
- • Kisumu farmer who dumped chicken for Guinea fowls has never looked back
- • How Kenyan farmers can cushion themselves from negative impacts of global price fluctuations
- • Kenyan mango farmers and traders unite to promote production and marketing of the fruit
- • Grafting purple with yellow passion controls nematode attacks
- • Former maize farmer finds a new paying off venture in sunflower
- • Worms' liquid offers crops more nutrients than fertilisers
- • New project offers groundnuts as alternative source of income for sugarcane for Western Kenya farmers
- • How to avoid soil hardening and crop drying in bag farming
- • Stem cutting potato seed production method reduces pests and diseases by half
- • Fresh fruits exporters in need of apple mangoes ahead of high season
- • Kilifi farmer dries mango fruits to beat low markets price in peak season
- • Vihiga County recruiting farmers to grow traditional vegetables for Carrefour
- • Fortified composite manure increases harvest two-fold
- • Reduced spacing increases cowpeas yields per acre
- • Uasin Gishu farmer dumps maize for pumpkins, earns Sh420,000 a season
- • Banana wine, crisps making promises bright future to college dropout
- • Exporter looking for 2000 farmers to grow horticultural crops
- • Pruning cuts pests, increases capsicum yields
- • Exporter buying honey from smallholders to meet UAE market demand
- • Exporter looking for Cavendish banana out growers to meet increasing export market demand
- • Online platform lets farmers know who is buying, when and for how much
- • Kenyan mint farmers set to double their export as peak season starts
- • Facts sheet on Saanen dairy goats farming
- • Former Nakumatt supplier turns to YouTube to train growers and make sales
- • Limuru entrepreneur launches honey processing plant that will buy produce from all-comers
- • Busia, Kericho counties plans a tax waiver deal to enable farmers access markets and curb food deficit
- • New technologies increase farmers yields seven-fold
- ► August (13)
- • Bayer East Africa launches new wilt resistant tomato variety
- • Free market far more advantageous for the sugar sector than a heavily regulated regime
- • How Kenya- Uganda border small-scale farmers are cutting the cost of transporting their produce across the border
- • Seed producer helping 200 culinary herbs farmers access international market for their produce
- • Leading hotel chain in Kenya buying green grams from all-comers
- • CNN’s Marketplace Africa highlights Kenya farmers’ shift to avocado production
- • How agribusiness startups are pointing farmers to international markets
- • Former Brookside employee earns up to Sh200,000 an acre from sweet potato farming
- • Strawberry fruits exporter looking for more growers to meet increasing demand in the Middle East
- • Mobile app gives farmers tips on crop and livestock, market prices and weather updates
- • How to make sweet potato vines silage for feeding pigs
- • New technology helps farmers increase tree yields by 34 to 38 per cent
- • Kenyan mobile-based cashless platform connects small-scale farmers directly to local retailers
- ► July (69)
- • Embu County secures export market for farmers’ tomatoes, onions, capsicum, cabbages, potatoes, chillies, cucumbers and passion among other fruits
- • Kakamega fish co-operative set to save farmers from fetching fingerlings from far counties
- • Mkulima bora app connects more than 5,000 farmers to consumers directly
- • JKUAT student selected ambassador to the world’s Thought for Food Foundation
- • Kajiado farmer producing 5,000kg of pumpkins a season through organic farming
- • Meru farmers win contract to export bananas to Hungary
- • Opinion: 5 factors dragging back agriculture sector in Kenya
- • City grocery feeds residents with dried vegetables, making a kill on increasing demand
- • Why I intercrop maize with sweet potatoes
- • Experts call for combined efforts to mobilise production, commercialisation and uptake of African indigenous vegetables
- • Israeli market opens up for Kenyan miraa (khat) farmers
- • Growing demand for rabbit meat among five start hotels in Nairobi excites farmers
- • Why farmer looked for market before growing courgettes
- • Busia agricultural industrial park to provide market for western Kenya cassava farmers
- • Kenyan fruit, vegetable exporter wins prestigious award at AgriPitch competition
- • Loitoktok farmer growing multiple crops to organically control pests, diseases and weeds
- • Feeding cows on a balanced diet improves milk production
- • Students establish seedlings farm to enhance their capacity in farming practices
- • Uasin Gishu farmer earns double from short season crops after quitting job
- • How meagre pocket money birthed Sh6,000 profit a week mushroom venture for college students
- • Kenyan coast beekeepers double honey production from 30 to 60 kilos a year with modern hives
- • Outsourced eggs cut hatching rate by over 50 per cent
- • Semen costs to go down by half on purchase of new liquid tankers by government
- • Training boosts coffee farmer's earnings by 75 per cent
- • Nandi farmer who quit maize for French beans gets guaranteed market
- • Strawberry jam production helps company find market for grade 2 fruits
- • New technology to help farmers prevent bacterial wilt in potatoes
- • Acute shortage of dwarf coconut variety seedlings hits coastal region
- • How a former P1 teacher built a mixed farm empire in Kisumu from Sh4,000 capital
- • Nyamira farmer looking for manure suppliers in Kisii, Bomet, Kericho and Homa Bay
- • Sugar industry faces exacerbated decline and extinction on proposed regulations
- • Former bodaboda rider earns up to Sh40,000 a season from vegetable farming
- • New farming technology increases crop yields by 500 to 2000 per cent
- • Youth earns Sh150,000 a season from arrowroot farming after abandoning maize production
- • NGO launches new multi-purpose product that improves soil fertility, crop yields and boosts livestock feeds
- • From a vendor to passion fruit farming worth Sh60,000 a month
- • Sugar farmers chase government to follow law in forming regulations
- • Fruit firm seeks to develop a handheld portable device that detects fruit pests and diseases
- • Kenyan researcher to introduce a new vaccine to end Newcastle disease in chicken
- • Vocational centre training farmers on amaranth seeds value addition for more cash
- • Africa’s Agri-preneurs Summit set for July 26th to 28th in Nairobi to explore market options for farmers and training on value addition
- • Fresh produce buyer seeks to offer services in local languages for easier communication with farmers
- • Mastercard Farmers Network connects small-scale farmers with potential buyers and financial access
- • Kisii farmers increase income 66 per cent using grafted seedlings
- • Global agribusiness firm reduces production downtime with smart sensors
- • How to maintain and improve soil fertility for profitability
- • Kenya social entrepreneur wins Prestigious Commonwealth Award for connecting farmers to global markets
- • Fact sheet on rapeseed farming in Kenya
- • Seedlings nursery urgently buying garlic onions from all-comers
- • IT graduate ventures into mushroom farming, trains growers and link them to markets
- • Kenya, Uganda mushroom farmers’ networking saves the growers training costs
- • Fact sheet on controlling panama disease in apple bananas
- • KCB targets 1000 poultry farmers in Makueni County with training and financial support
- • Western Kenya dairy farmers bank on brewery waste to save Sh50, 000 animal feed costs a month
- • Kisii company ventures into banana ('Ritoke') crisps to provide market for farmers
- • Graduate who dumped a commission sales job for passion fruit farming earns Sh60,000 a month
- • Kenyan flower sector remains steady despite high competition in export market from Ethiopia’s
- • New KCC cuts milk prices by five shillings as supply increases by 25 per cent
- • Blue economy forum to help source markets for Kenyan fish farmers
- • Youth in Matungu, Kakamega County earns Sh150,000 a season from arrowroot farming
- • Maize feed mixed with lupin seeds increases milk yields and cuts production costs
- • Agri-enterprises in Kenya set to get financial support to grow their ventures
- • Thika vegetable farm turn to institutions and retailers for reliable markets and payments
- • Homa Bay youth selling over ten varieties of tree seedlings across Kenya in bid to beat climate change
- • Law graduate who turned from a farm produce broker to a grower and supplier of fresh cucumber and lettuce
- • Marsabit pastoralists adopt rice farming for an alternative income
- • Graduate ventures into mushroom farming after failing to get a job
- • Village-based farmers’ coop trains and provides farm inputs and ready market for smallholders
- • Organization helps farmers in value addition and market connection reducing post-harvest losses
- ► June (61)
- • An industrialist ventures into chilli puree production, provides ready market for women farmers group
- • Western Kenya-based agro-processing firm offers ready market for pawpaw farmers
- • Kenyan tea farmers bet on new technology at collection centres for efficiency and transparency
- • Eldoret business lady urgently recruiting farmers to plant and supply capsicums, long cayenne chili, courgettes and corn flowers
- • Water harvesting sets Nyeri vegetable farmer on the path to fish rearing
- • Gatundu farmer earns Sh640,000 a season from strawberry farming after quitting job
- • Farmers turn to institutions to sell their produce at better prices and immediate sales
- • Jobs fund assists farmers to find markets for their produce
- • How to stop your one day old chicks from dying
- • Pawpaw farming promises brighter future for a missionary
- • How to control diarrhea in camel calves without using drugs
- • Farmbiz Africa wins 2019 BAKE Awards’ Agriculture Blog of the Year
- • Local feed mix reduces production costs for Kisii County poultry farmer
- • Ujuzikilimo helps farmers get personalized weather updates, crop management and market information
- • How farmers are tapping water from Aberdare Mountain Ranges for crop production
- • NGO helps urban farmers plant vegetables in their balconies and backyards
- • Makueni farmers set to up cotton production with new variety
- • Fact sheet on potato farming in Kenya for high returns
- • Increased demand for Kenyan flowers in the US excites producers and exporters
- • Salt supplements prevent milk fever, retained placenta and downer cow disease in cows after giving birth
- • Village chicken auction market helps small scale farmers fetch better prices
- • Agri-Entrepreneur: How I have used technology to connect 7,000 Kenya smallholder farmers to global markets
- • Movable house for goats and sheep reduces deaths by 25 per cent
- • Team of agricultural graduates in Busia County training farmers on crops production for food security
- • Narok group buying red onions from all-comers
- • A group of persistent oil crops farmers in Busia looking for more markets for their produce
- • Israeli trained agronomist teaching farmers on crop production
- • Production manager who quit job creates own model mixed farm
- • Online platform to support women in farm production and sales launched
- • Company offers Kwale beekeepers training and market for their produce
- • Caging stops double pregnancies per month for healthy rabbits
- • Kenyan smallholders to benefit from loans with longer maturity period to boost production
- • New technology enables farmers to practice upland arrowroot farming
- • How to control the False Coding Moth pest that causes rejection of fresh produce in international markets
- • Former matatu driver leaves the chaotic industry, finds peace in potato production
- • How rice farmer rose from a casual laborer to a millionaire
- • Intercountry benchmarking aids group of Machakos farmers up farm production and marketing
- • Bungoma farmers to receive free coffee seedlings
- • Retrenched Kenya Red Cross Society employee becomes own boss with apple farming
- • Makueni farmer who swapped kienyeji chicken for Rainbow Rooster excels in poultry farming
- • How to grow and improve ginger yields using compost coffee husks manure
- • John Deere offering brand new tractor models for the price of a second-hand pick-up
- • Kenyan flower industry wins big as the government expedites fertiliser clearance process
- • Inter-cropping maize with sunflower reduces bird damage
- • Organic fertiliser triples Kitale farmer's watermelon yield
- • Kwale farmer producing clean certified coconut seedlings for colleagues and institutions
- • Nyamira farmer uses a tenth acre piece of land for high honey returns
- • Oil processing company looking for farmers to grow rapeseed
- • Engineer ventures into short season crops farming after Israel training
- • Agronomist: Excess fertiliser application may cut crop yields by half
- • Commercial feeds help farmer achieve uniform growth and standard weight in pigs for better markets
- • Agri giants partner to drive growth in African agriculture
- • Government promotes avocado and orange fleshed sweet potato farming in Kirinyaga
- • Urea improves the nutritional value of livestock feeds
- • Kenyan fish pond farmers poised for good market opportunities as wild catch dwindles
- • How to control bruchids in beans without use of pesticides
- • Baringo County farmer ups his income tenfold after facing out red Maasai sheep for dorper breed
- • How to grow avocados for export
- • Accountant earns double from dairy and hay production after quitting job
- • Man builds rabbits empire single-handedly despite financial challenges
- • Ready sorghum market increasing demand for seeds by farmers
- ► May (68)
- • Steel cage tames rabbit parasites
- • Ready banana market relieves frustrated coffee farmer
- • Company launches new fertilizer to fix degraded soils and increase yields
- • SokoFreshi connects more than 100,000 farmers to local and international markets
- • How to grow hydroponic fodder in seven days and save production costs by 70 per cent
- • Driver's side hustle vegetable farming job earns him Sh50,000 a season
- • Fresh fruits buyer and supplier looses tender rules to offer market to all producers
- • Rabbit urine can eliminate whiteflies reducing insecticide costs for farmers
- • Kenya's fish production increases by 10 per cent improving farmers’ income
- • Health conscious households drive neglected vegetables cultivation
- • How to grow and earn millions with passion fruits
- • Nandi farmer looking for buyers for his tea seedlings
- • Urban farmer scaling up his income by organic strawberry farming
- • Company doubles potato seed multiplication to meet high demand from farmers
- • How the newly released 2019 potato regulations will save Nyandarua farmers from unfair trade
- • Western and central Kenya farmers to receive support to grow high yielding and disease resistant Batian coffee variety
- • How poultry side hustle turned tour guide into a countrywide supplier
- • Company contracting farmers to rear rabbits
- • Farmer who uprooted Eucalyptus trees for mixed farming does not regret
- • Farmer turns to herbs to cure potato disease as commercial chemicals seem ineffective and expensive
- • How Western Kenya farmers can avoid losses in banana farming
- • Why getting it right in breeding is a great success in commercial rabbit farming
- • Company helps farmers set up multistory garden that can last for 10 years
- • Market opens for small-scale cassava farmers in Machakos County
- • Farmer who quit maize for tomatoes earns six times more
- • Journalist ventures into honey production, buys produce from farmers
- • Orphaned passion fruit farmers in Machakos find strength by coming together
- • Access to information helps Dorper sheep farmer avert 60 per cent loss in sales
- • Exporter training North Rift farmers on passion fruit production
- • Procurement graduate who failed to land a job earns big from poultry farming
- • Special container to save avocado farmer losses resulting from post-harvest mishandling
- • Strawberry farmer training youth to help in producing quality fruits
- • An IT consultant finds alternative cash from passion and pawpaw farming
- • Accountant’s side hustle dairy farming job earns him Sh120,000 a month
- • How to control weeds in maize without use of pesticides
- • Farmers prefer galla breed to traditional goats for quick cash
- • Fact sheet on Boer goat breed
- • Kiambu housewife excels in poultry farming
- • Government gives Vihiga farmers free avocado, tea and coffee seedlings
- • Growing appetite for meat and dairy products shoots up Kenya’s livestock turnover to US $1.44bn
- • Nigeria launches first GMO food crop, Pod Borer Resistant Cowpea to up production
- • Intercropping Napier grass with maize controls destructive stem borer
- • How farmers can control aphids sucking their crops using organic means
- • John Deere launches device for satellite farming enabling site-specific crop management
- • Vote for Farmbiz Africa, best agricultural blog BAKE Awards 2019
- • Why a Nyeri industrialist chose poultry over real estate
- • Kenya Breweries Limited commits Sh8m for the restoration of Mt. Kenya and Aberdare forests
- • Integrating technology solutions to produce better yields for farmers
- • Oserian Development Company launches solar plant to power operations
- • Coffee prices up 14 per cent on delivery of quality beans
- • John Deere offers South African software firms the chance to help boost precision farming
- • How Machakos farmer is surviving climatically harsh condition of the area producing enough for the family
- • Coriander helps farmer cuts pesticide costs by ‘seducing’ pest eating insects
- • Uasin Gishu farmer who dumped maize for vegetables does not regret
- • Fact sheet on growing cut flowers for export
- • Kenyan government launches Sh9m post-harvest training programme for tomato farmers
- • Farm introduces Murang’a 20 macadamia variety with improved yields all year round than common varieties
- • Liming reduces fertilizer wastage increasing crop yields
- • Kirinyaga County macadamia farmers up their production thanks to ready market
- • Search for nutritious milk lands farmer into lucrative dairy goat rearing
- • Forum launched to help farmers evolve and grow their businesses
- • IT Manager excels in dairy farming side hustle job
- • Health benefits and increased demand for chia seeds entice Western Kenya farmers to grow the crop
- • Kajiado farmer finds sweet side hustle in cucumber and lettuce production
- • Kinangop potato farmers to find solution to market challenges for their produce, thanks to a new plant
- • Cabbage farming tips for smallholder farmers
- • Urban dairy farmer defies all odds, builds a thriving venture in the city
- • Kenya put to test in applying government’s new Acts in sugar regulation
- ► April (48)
- • Consumption of poultry meat in Kenya to hit 164.6 thousand metric tonnes in 2030, study
- • Salgaa broiler farmer makes Sh121,500 a month thanks to the increasing demand of the chickens’ meat
- • How to control tomato pests and diseases without use of pesticides
- • Avocado farmer earning Sh70,000 per harvest after abandoning coffee production
- • Tied ridges increases sorghum and millet yields in dry areas
- • Youth from Eastern, Central and Western Kenya regions to benefit from Sh14bn fund for fish production to curb deficit
- • Government to offer internship to agricultural graduates, equipping them with practical skills in farming
- • Kenya’s agriculture sector grows by 6.6 per cent
- • Kenyan avocados cleared to enter the expansive Chinese market
- • Former IEBC clerk who invested Sh20,000 in pawpaw farming has no regrets
- • Pans helps farmers harvest water for use all-year round
- • Eldoret passion farmer earning up to Sh70,000 a week after leaving chaotic ‘mitumba’ business
- • Community based organization helping farmers grow herbs to benefit from an all-time stable prices
- • Locally modified machine that controls mushrooms humidity, keeping off deadly disease
- • New bean varieties that use less water to help farmers beat drought effects
- • Persistent watermelon farmer rakes over Sh900,000 a season despite losing all at first attempt
- • New feed technology that increases weaning weight by 2.7kg in pigs
- • Naivasha flower farm tops for adopting renewable energy as away to save environment
- • Youth using his knowledge to train and help farmers in crop production, further linking them to markets
- • NGO to contract 99,000 farmers in Kilifi to grow Cocoa
- • Brookside increases milk prices by five shillings to cushion 160,000 farmers against drought effects
- • Quest for healthy diet births a fruit and vegetable agribusiness for Kitui farmer
- • Kenya’s mobile-based food delivery firm aims to connect more African farmers with buyers
- • Nandi County launches construction of milk processing plant to help farmers with ready market
- • Youth, women empowerment firm in need of more arrowroot buyers for the produce
- • Isuzu East Africa introduces cold chain logistics vehicles to enable farmers transport perishable produce
- • KALRO to hold the first ever agricultural scientific conference and exhibition in Nairobi
- • Kenya to export avocados, baby carrots and broccoli to the Mauritius market
- • Cape gooseberry, wild fruit that can earn smallholders up to Sh750,000 an acre
- • Why the proposed animal manure bill could hurt Kenya’s food production goals
- • Kenya’s increasing agricultural innovations poised to boost food security
- • Weed tolerant maize for Western Kenya does well in both short and long season rains
- • Resilient farmer earns Sh100,000 a month from pawpaw and passion farming after losing Sh446,000 in watermelon
- • Dudutech launches pest control NEMguard to boost yields without EU residue risk
- • E-wallet roll out to enable farmers access government subsidies
- • Youth start mushroom production and supply firm to fulfill their passion
- • Government agency trains farmers on safe use of pesticides to ensure Kenya’s fruits and vegetables meets international market demands
- • East African Malting to contract farmers in Laikipia, Kwale, Baringo, Taita Taveta and Bungoma to grow white sorghum
- • Kenya to build Africa’s first agritech innovation incubator
- • Government to create new policy to develop a National Livestock sector
- • High yielding and fast maturing grafted tree tomato seedlings variety now available for Kenyan farmers
- • How to control roundworms in sheep and goats
- • Group marketing helps Kwale citrus farmers triple income
- • Taita Taveta County to construct a Sh116m banana processing plant to boost the crop’s farming in the area
- • Nairobi modern farmers’ market set to connect food producers directly with consumers
- • Kenya Nut Processors to create new laws to shield macadamia farmers from the nuts’ theft
- • How to identify genuine maize seeds this planting season
- • Finance graduate making up to Sh70,000 in three days from avocado farming and supply
- ► March (51)
- • Sigh of relief for Kericho dairy farmer after Kenya Dairy Board suspended controversial regulations
- • Ugandan market opens up for Kenyan beef farmers
- • Fact sheet on how to grow the highly demanded sorghum crop
- • Graduate earns about Sh1m a season from hay production after leaving Sh10,000 salary job
- • Drought tolerant yellow maize which can yield eight tonnes per acre best for silage making
- • Kephis introduces new requirements for avocado producers and exporters to South Africa
- • Local NGO helps over 50,000 farmers’ countrywide save and access chemical free seeds
- • Water saving crystals that can enable plants survive longer in dry conditions
- • Global company launches initiative to help smallholders through poultry value chain
- • Scientists discover wasps that can kill 70 per cent of fall armyworm pests
- • Avocado society mobilising for increased production as more markets expected
- • Seedlings nursery introduces drought tolerant apples for low rainfall areas
- • Kilifi farmers to start organic cocoa farming as an alternative crop to cashew nuts
- • Narok farmer makes Sh780,000 profit every three months from short season crops
- • Researchers identify 28 insect species with higher crude protein content effective for fish and poultry production
- • FAO launches programme to increase soil productivity and reduce degradation in Africa
- • JKUAT introduces new button mushroom variety suitable for warmer areas
- • How to grow and achieve three times bigger size in eggplant fruits
- • Good news for tomato farmers as prices double on high demand
- • Farmer harvesting strawberries all year round from multi-storey gardening
- • Long rains set for the fourth week of March, says Weatherman
- • Nigerian firm launches smart technology to help smallholders access vital information on farming
- • High-yielding and drought tolerant Carmen F1 cucumber variety earns Sh225,000 a season
- • Government to distribute one million bags of subsidised fertiliser to smallholder farmers as planting season begins
- • Murang’a farmer feeds cows with yeast, improves milk production by up to three litres a day
- • How farmers can multiply clean banana planting material from existing plants instead of buying
- • Motor assembly company unveils a light and cheaper multi-purpose tractor for farmers
- • Mulching saves farmers Sh15,100 in maize production costs
- • Former electrician invents new multi-storey gardening farming technology using dam liners
- • Planting coriander in your farm controls aphids, white flies and mites
- • FAO to help farmers fight Red Palm Weevil, the world's most invasive pest species
- • Government organization to train potato growers on seed development to curb shortage
- • University drop out makes over Sh0.5m net income a season from French beans farming
- • Device that converts any space into a cold room to preserve fresh produce invented
- • Adding crushed egg shells to the soil and watering thrice a week controls blossom end rot in tomatoes
- • Good news to fresh produce exporters as Air France announces more weekly flights to Kenya
- • Farm training farmers on cheese making for more returns
- • Green legume manures saves farmers Sh3200 per acre in fertiliser costs
- • Meru dove farmer turns childhood hobby into a profitable farming venture earning him Sh600,000 yearly
- • Safety measures to take in pesticide application on your crops
- • Coast based agricultural firm conducts training workshops for poultry and dairy farmers
- • Farmer ventures into earthworms farming to fix tired soil
- • International exporter contracting farmers to grow herbs
- • Nigerian agro-tech firm to support Kenyan smallholder farmers access tractor services through IoT
- • Fact sheet on piglet management for improved production
- • Company trains farmers on dairy, poultry nutrition and health management
- • Hardy Siberian kale (Sukumawiki) variety cultivars available for Kenyan farmers
- • Government to provide Meru farmers with free macadamia seedlings to double production
- • Safaricom partners with livestock association to host agribusiness trade fair in Homa Bay County
- • New technology to help farmers raise hardier and more productive animals developed
- • How to control aphids in wheat
- ► February (44)
- • Intercropping sorghum and legumes can give 35-60 per cent more profit than maize bean system
- • Grafting purple and yellow passion fruit controls deadly wilting disease
- • East African Breweries Limited looking for 45,000 more farmers to grow sorghum
- • Former hardware businessman now makes Sh7,500 a day from dairy farming in Kawangware
- • Health and wellness counselor finds alternative cool cash from goat milk yoghurt
- • Blueberry demand results in unique technology support
- • John Deere employs contractor model to help Kenya's smallholder farmers mechanise
- • Local and international rise in demand for the nutritious chia seeds entices farmers to grow the crop
- • Liquid Telecom Kenya’s IoT network enables fish farmers to monitor ponds and increase production
- • New market opens up for rabbit farmers
- • Forget about Kenya, South Africa could also be hit by low egg prices as major dealer records 13.6 per cent decline
- • Government establishes new institute to enable farmers increase market reach via value addition
- • Research institute develops fish smoking kiln to help farmers reduce wastage and improve income
- • Chicken company buying eggs from farmers
- • New sesame hulling plant launched in Ethiopia to provide farmers with ready market
- • Kenya lifts ban on Chinese fish imports as local production declines
- • High yielding South African table and wine grape cuttings, seedlings and rootstocks available in Kenya
- • Smut disease tolerant Napier grass gives 60 per cent more yields
- • International agriculture and poultry exhibition to be held in Nairobi
- • Former driver becomes award winning dairy goat farmer
- • Failure by government to pay back tax and avail subsidized fertilizer to hurt flower farms
- • Student grows off-season vegetables for profit
- • Makueni County launches new dairy plant with a higher milk processing capacity to provide market for farmers
- • Association to link 10,000 Macadamia nut farmers to markets as crop prices triple
- • Law graduate earns Sh4.2m from tomato farming targeting low supply dry season to produce the crop
- • Kenya’s fresh produce now ranked third highest foreign exchange earner
- • Good news to farmers and traders as avocado demand increases to 80 per cent in export markets
- • Kenyan flower sector booms despite fertiliser shortage
- • International companies launch satellite imagery technology to help cocoa farmers up yields
- • Crop experts join efforts to help eradicate troublesome flower pests in Kenya
- • Farmers: Forget about export, Kenyan local market in need of 1,000mt of garlic yearly
- • Women group ventures into silkworm farming for steady and more income
- • Nandi farmer makes over Sh1.5m a season from tomato, tea and cabbage sales
- • Government gives 48,000 subsidized chicks to farmers to raise income
- • Molo farmer helping colleagues get clean potato seeds amid acute shortage
- • Kenya Seed Company is contracting farmers to produce Boma Rhodes seeds
- • Time your Irish potatoes for maximum profit during high demand
- • KEPHIS launches new high yielding fast maturing coconut variety for Coastal farmers
- • Young graduate earns Sh760,000 a season from growing short-term crops after an Israeli training
- • Pineapple farmers to earn 15 times more by exporting produce to Israel
- • Fresh produce exporter looking for growers from Kajiado and Ukambani counties
- • Fact sheet on heart water disease in cattle, sheep and goats
- • Scientist finds solution to deadly banana disease through genetic orientation
- • New biological solution stops fruit flies attack on mangoes
- ► January (38)
- • New app to help western Kenyan farmers diagnose plant diseases using satellite data
- • Siaya group excel in collective marketing of traditional vegetables
- • New quality based payment regulations to strengthen dairy sector in Kenya and improve farmers’ income
- • European Union market opens up for Kenyan sweet potato farmers
- • Organisation launches online seed informational tool to enable farmers access critical data in one click
- • How to control deadly goat disease
- • Former fine art expert finds steady income in raising seedlings
- • Researchers develop new drought tolerant finger millet varieties resistant to blast disease and striga weed
- • A social enterprise develops solar cooling facility to save fresh produce from undue spoilage
- • Blossoming Kenyan flower sector produces one of the best cut flower grower globally
- • Good news for coffee farmers as prices jump 24 per cent on delivery of quality beans
- • Sugar farmers attack draft industry regulations as anti-constitutional and illegal on multiple counts
- • Rising demand for herbs and spices in local and international markets ignites the farming in Kenya
- • Census to help Kenyan crop growing farmers access subsidized fertiliser and markets
- • Sugar cane farmers callout new zoning law that restricts market access
- • Mango processor buying produce from all-comers
- • COMESA plans to tame fake seeds in member states countries with common logo
- • High yielding Burundian arrowroot variety tubers available in Kenya
- • Dudutech cutting edge pest controls now available in Tanzania
- • Homemade dairy feeds cuts milk production costs by a third
- • Government to promote green grams farming in Makueni to ensure farmers maximum profit
- • Government launches project to eradicate water hyacinth in Lake Victoria to benefit fish farmers
- • Kitui County to offer free artificial insemination to over 100,000 farmers to improve production
- • Exporter looking for ginger, garlic, okra, pumpkin for its growing markets
- • Sugarcane farmers to receive payment from 2014 before end of January
- • Good news to Kenyan consumers as egg prices remain low due to glut in local markets
- • Organization helps tea farmers market their produce
- • Nyeri processor increases milk intake prices by seven shillings a liter
- • Public and private players intensify efforts to revive cashew nut farming at the coast
- • Foods company buying cabbages, oranges, pawpaw, carrots, onions, potatoes, pineapples, passion fruits and tomatoes e.t.c. from all-comers
- • Farmer resorts to green maize, making four times profit as compared to grains
- • Health benefits driving the growing amaranth enterprise in Kenya
- • Government to buy two million bags of maize from farmers
- • Kenyan farmers rank water hyacinth best to grow oyster mushroom
- • How to control aphids and leaf miner in kales
- • NGO urgently looking for farmers to grow chia crop
- • Young broccoli farmer banks on new South Korea market
- • Rearing own layers enables agriprenuer achieve over 70 per cent egg hatching rate
- ► December (26)
- ► 2018 (653)
- ► December (11)
- • How former tailor grew to become a regional trader in sorghum
- • Varsity student invents bio-gas incubator, looking for funds to commercialise the apparatus
- • Green banana and broccoli market opens up for Kenyan farmers in South Korea
- • Wefarm launches Champion Farmer award for farmers driving agricultural knowhow countrywide
- • Kenya off-grid solar access project to benefit 1.3m farmers
- • Farmer group finds solution to smaller quantities of their soya beans produce
- • Women group earns Sh10,000 in three months from indigenous vegetables flour
- • Entrepreneur earns sweet income from sugarcane value addition
- • KALRO launches eight new maize varieties resistant to the lethal necrosis viral disease
- • New mobile app connects farmers to investors
- • Scientist training farmers to produce own animal feeds to cut production costs
- ► November (64)
- • Farm to construct 10,000MT tilapia hatchery to boost production and food security in Kenya
- • Researchers discover new edible cricket species with 60 per cent protein content in Kenya
- • Fact sheet on black rot disease in cabbage
- • Graduate starts mango fruit wine enterprise in Siaya County
- • Small-holder farmers need access to financing across the agricultural value chain
- • KALRO develops vaccine to fight deadly cattle disease
- • Understanding organic fertilisers
- • Mwea farmers to adopt certified rice seeds to boost production
- • Crossbreeding boosts weight of Machakos farmer’s rabbits
- • Farmer invests in water to increase his gross income from Sh30,000 to Sh360,000 a season
- • How farmers can avoid rejection of export horticultural produce
- • Association training farmers on commercial rabbit production
- • Cashewnut processing company in Kilifi in urgent need of farmers to grow the crop
- • Company delivers rust tolerant soy bean to farmers’ doorstep and connects them to markets
- • Homa Bay farmer targets amaranth seeds’ flour to make good income
- • Fertiliser shortage causes crisis in Kenyan flower farms
- • Water harvesting saves an 84 years old Machakos farmer as peers suffer during drought
- • Varsity scientists researching on insect based poultry feeds to curb rising production costs
- • Northeastern Kenya women earning from fodder sales, moving to economic independence
- • Kenya overtakes India in key black tea global markets
- • Company set to launch platform to connect banana, mango, passion, yellow beans, green grams and cow pea’s farmers to markets
- • Bidco introduces poultry feeds that reduce maturity period in kienyeji chicken, increasing yields
- • Fresh Produce exporter contracting farmers to supply Hass and Fuerte avocado varieties
- • A new cost-free method that increases sweet potato shelf-life for up to seven months
- • How farmers can avoid losses in indigenous poultry farming and improve yields
- • Kakamega farmer who abandoned cane farming for nuts has no regret
- • Telegram group connects over 22,000 onion, tomato, watermelon, cabbage, chili and capsicum farmers to markets
- • Tissue culture banana earns farmer double income compared to traditional varieties
- • Research ranks Kenya last in sorghum production in Eastern Africa
- • Fact sheet on butternut pumpkin farming
- • How farmer is managing his over 100 rabbits online
- • Varsity receives Sh56.8m grant to finance and mentor 1,200 agribusiness entrepreneurs
- • Improved grain storage technology brightens up Kenyan farmers
- • Loans helps small scale farmers fix adjustable biogas digesters
- • Farmer creates online platform to help colleagues access best breeding services
- • Kenya’s flowers, fruits and vegetable earnings increase by 33 per cent in eight months
- • Kenya launches framework to implement climate-smart agriculture
- • Avocado, French beans, flowers, vegetables and peanuts market ripe in China
- • Murang’a wine maker training farmers on commercial production of grapes
- • Promising climate options for Ethiopia, Kenya
- • Fact sheet on apple farming
- • Rise in demand for strawberry flavour earns Kiambu farmer ready market
- • Startup making pizza from mushroom looking for farmers to grow the fungus
- • A banana variety that can yield 90kg per stem to increase yields for smallholder farmers
- • Frustrated farmer abandons coffee, finds money in passion farming
- • How to reduce post-harvest losses in maize by 20 to 30 per cent
- • Government to vet and pay genuine cane farmers Sh2.6bn before Christmas
- • City lawyer finds cool cash in rearing fast maturing exotic bulls for meat
- • Weaver ants increase cashew yields by 150 per cent
- • East Africa Breweries Limited takes sorghum contract farming to Kakamega
- • South Sudanese high yielding and fast maturing pawpaw variety seeds available in Kenya
- • County taps 10,000 farmers to grow pyrethrum, sisal, sunflower, coffee, cotton and tea to diversify sources of income
- • Rearing five dairy goats is 45 per cent more profitable than a dairy cow
- • Farmers to start planting pest resistant GM cotton next year
- • Kenya livestock sector earns big exporting live animals to Middle East
- • Grease mixed with Vaseline and curry powder keeps off crawling insects invading beehive
- • Organization helps Kenyan, Ugandan, Tanzanian, Rwandese, Malawian, and Ethiopian farmers’ access local and international markets
- • Nakuru farmers set to use geothermal energy in crop production
- • Sukari F1 watermelon variety earns class eight leaver Sh2m gross income a season
- • New app to help farmers sell their produce directly to consumers
- • Research institute introduces three varieties of chicken peas suitable for short rain seasons
- • County recruiting 2500 farmers to grow traditional vegetables
- • Manual chicken feed mixing machine cuts buying cost by 30-50 per cent
- • Urban residents to save Sh2,000 monthly on power bills with new organic biogas digester
- ► October (60)
- • Company launches new organic fertiliser that increase production and preserve soil
- • Comfrey gives livestock three times more proteins than Napier
- • Combining creamy milk from Ayrshire cows with that of Friesian increases farmer’s income
- • Amiran Kenya finds permanent solution to bacterial wilt disease
- • New disease resistant cassava varieties for Coastal Kenya can yield 20 to 28 tons per acre
- • Lawyer banks on nutritious value of camel milk, builds processing factory at Nanyuki
- • New programme to accelerate irrigation in Kenya launched
- • Murang’a poultry, dairy, banana and fish farmers get Sh200m fund to boost production
- • Macadamia production increases fourfold as demand rises
- • Why Africa spends US$35 billion per year on importing food
- • Kajiado tomato farmers to earn maximally from their produce after the ban on the oversized packaging
- • Water harvesting improves Njoro framer’s produce, earns him international award
- • Farmer buys motorbike from groundnut farming savings
- • An e-learning course set to equip farmers with practical skills to fight pests and diseases
- • Turkeys earn thrice chicken income in six months
- • US Government grants Sh4.5bn to fund Livestock Market Systems program in Northen Kenya
- • Murang’a farmers urged to take advantage of direct flights to the USA to export avocados
- • Tana River farmer who produces 30 tonnes of chilli a season, in need of contractors to grow more
- • Drought tolerant soy bean can earn farmers Sh170,000 in three months
- • Kiambu exporter contracting farmers to supply purple passion fruits
- • Milk processor launches new factory in Sotik to serve Bomet, Kisii, Kericho and Narok farmers
- • Scientists design a more productive maize to cope with harsh climates
- • Kenya targets extra markets for avocado, mango and cashew nut in China
- • University lecturer invents automated irrigation system that will help farmers’ water crops correctly
- • Migori farmers eyes sunflower and soya bean after tobacco woes
- • KEPHIS calls on horticulture industry exporters to comply with European Union export market standards for beans and peas with pods
- • New UN report: Why the global hunger continues to rise
- • Scientists develop banana variety which is resistance to deadly bacterial wilt disease
- • Global animal health company to provide East Africa farmers with affordable high-quality veterinary products
- • Engineer adds value to rice husks into useful industrial chemicals
- • Good news as Google announces Sh100m grant to train Kenyan farmers on digital skills
- • New drought tolerant and pests resistant maize variety gets Sh2.5bn funding
- • New sugarcane zoning rules offers farmers an expanded market
- • World Food Day knocks as Kenya is said to be in good position to become food secure by 2030
- • Refugee changing her life by growing sweet potato, okra and kale in her camp kitchen garden
- • Hungarian government set to offer innovative solutions that will boost food production in Kenya
- • How to control the outbreak of lumpy skin disease in cows
- • Driver who resigned to venture into goat farming does not regret
- • Kitale bull station can now produce enough semen to serve Kenya and neighbouring countries
- • Opinion: Why Kenya Slept Hungry Last Year
- • World’s largest farmer-to-farmer network, Wefarm, reaches over one million users and sends more than one million questions and answers
- • Agro-company launches portable water harvesting and storage tanks
- • KALRO to create an observatory platform to help farmers get information on weather, market, climate
- • County to set up three maize milling plants to help farmers ease marketing problems
- • University launches machine that produces biogas from water hyacinth
- • Seed company launches kales variety which is best for ulcer patients
- • Farmers to thresh three bags of sorghum per hour with new JKUAT machine
- • Company sells improved Longstroth beehives that doubles honey yields
- • Rising temperatures will push millions of people in Africa into poverty and hunger unless governments take swift action
- • Giant Ugandan pumpkin that can weigh up to 30kg when mature, seeds now available in Kenya
- • Plantwise plant clinics helps Kenyan farmers grow more and lose less to crop pests and diseases
- • Funguo to manufacture fruit juice puree in Kwale County
- • Meru entrepreneur selling over 20 different varieties of fruit seedlings
- • Study: Why cattle population in decline in arid areas in Kenya
- • Kakamega farmer earns over Sh90,000 a year from goat milk
- • UoN launches a project to help Isiolo livestock farmers preserve meat using solar driers
- • Government to build a Sh100m dairy embryo-transplant facility to boost production
- • Opinion: How African farmers and traders can seize the opportunity offered by Africa's continental free trade area
- • Kenyan entrepreneur wins global award for increasing farmers’ yields with solar energy
- • Varsity launches solar drier that preserves meat, maize, vegetables and fruits for up to one year
- ► September (71)
- • Chicken company selling improved kienyeji vaccinated chicks to farmers
- • Flower farm wins three awards for innovation, inclusivity in the workplace
- • AGRA increases efforts on food security across Africa, appoints former Ethiopian PM to its board of directors
- • Cabbages give higher yields at lower cost when grown in rotation with traditional vegetables
- • Report: UK’s major seasons and events this year led to increased imports of raspberries from Kenya
- • Hermetic metal silos help farmers save 25 per cent grain losses without use of chemicals
- • Magical birds of Homa Bay earn farmers Sh70m
- • Group helps farmers earn Sh30,000 a month from soyamilk
- • Bean varieties that take 27 minutes to cook in the market
- • Understanding seeds as key in improving farmers yields
- • Kenyan flowers, fruits and Vegetables in high demand in the European markets
- • Kenya to host international grain millers’ conference with focus on trade wars and innovation
- • Star farmer: Dairy farming lifts Rift Valley farmer to national and international stardom
- • Highland farmers to earn big from new cold resistant sweet potato varieties
- • Agricultural supply platform announces plans to test farmers’ produce for safety
- • KEPHIS hosts workshop on application of international quality standards for fresh fruits and vegetables
- • Experts training Nakuru County farmers on organic farming
- • Meru farmer earns Sh250,000 from sorghum farming
- • Government to provide 60 million pyrethrum seedlings to farmers to boost the crop production
- • World Bank: 17.4m Kenyans cannot afford food
- • How to make agribusiness work for women
- • Why farmers are now feeding tomatoes to cows
- • Ministry of agriculture developing new technology to offer quality potato seeds
- • Scientist creates nutritional animal feed from Mathenge plant
- • Cucumber farmers to earn up to 10 times more by exporting produce to Israel
- • Nyeri farmers adopt cage fish farming from fellows living at the shores of Lake Victoria
- • How to avoid farm milk spoilage
- • Narok County to construct Sh1.2bn leather tannery to offer market for farmers
- • Farmers living off the bees in Tana River
- • Cooperative insurer launches new project to cover over 250,000 Kenyan farmers with livestock microinsurance
- • Retrenched civil servant finds a soft landing in mixed farming
- • Drought tolerant maize variety matures in three months ready for fresh green market
- • Cassava leaves are an alternative source food for dairy cows in the dry season
- • UN agency launches 5-year agribusiness and value chain development plan for Kenya
- • FAO distributes seeds, farm implements to Kenyan farmers
- • Kisii County plans to revive stalled avocado factory to provide market for farmers
- • Class eight leaver who is earning big from watermelon farming
- • Businessman recruiting farmers to grow bamboo and sisal
- • KEBS new and stringent measures causing fertiliser shortage
- • Farmers to receive subsidized fertilizer from next month in preparation for short season rains
- • Herbal doctor invents machine that extracts juice to protect crops from diseases
- • Nyeri farmer banks on multiple health benefits of persimmon fruit to make profit
- • Upgrading an ayrshire with a friesian can boost farmers milk production at low costs
- • University launches new technology to boost food security
- • An 82-year-old Machakos farmer who grows different varieties of fruits from single stem tree
- • Retired teacher earns ten times more income by recycling plastic waste into cooking gas
- • Former county government worker does not regret quitting job to venture into aloe vera export business
- • Kenyan startup develops mobile-based service to save farmers the difficulty in dealing with brokers
- • Grafted apple varieties that yield quality fruits in one year
- • Procedure for registration as an exporter of agricultural produce
- • Young Nakuru security expert building a thriving poultry farming in the county
- • Good news for farmers as potato prices double in Nairobi
- • Farm using goat manure as mulch and fertiliser doubling its production
- • New report: Political support more important than seeds, weather and soil in Africa’s agriculture progress
- • Low maize prices hurting farmers as harvesting season starts
- • Heat tolerant beans that fight climate change
- • Casual worker quits job to establish thriving dairy feeds business
- • Researchers set to develop cassava variety that fights climate change
- • A paper device technology that will help farmers health-check soil and water
- • Weatherman: heavy rains expected during Nov-Dec short rains, farmers advised to take advantage
- • Aloe Vera is the hidden treasure of Taita Taveta
- • Government plans to transform arid counties into Kenya’s bread baskets
- • EU grants Sh116m to promote potato sector in Nyandarua County
- • 15,000 sorghum and bean farmers find market power in collective groups
- • Opinion: Achieving solutions with farmers isn’t radical: why is it so hard?
- • Farmer buys cow with traditional vegetable savings
- • The growing medium that offers 100 per cent seed germination than soil
- • Technology centre adding value to underutilized plants boosting Kenyan smallholder farmers’ income
- • How to control deadly pig disease
- • Biocatalyst that slices manure composting time by half
- • EABL pays Sh1.5bn to its 60,000 small-scale sorghum farmers in the region
- ► August (62)
- • Naivasha flower firm invests in social amenities in anticipation of population growth as industrial park takes shape
- • Government launches Hass Avocado farming in Nyamira
- • Transformative UK aid projects to protect the agricultural sector and small-scale farmers in Africa
- • New pigeon pea variety does not need fertilizer and is suitable for short season rains
- • How to achieve maximum Sweet pepper yield
- • Kenyan Parliament moves proposal to reduce maize, wheat and cassava flour prices
- • Biogas heater reduces chicks brooding energy cost to zero
- • New innovative agribusiness project that promises bright future for Kenya’s youth launched
- • With a multi-storey vegetable garden you can harvest 30kg of kales per bag in your backyard garden every two months
- • How market research helps farm sell its produce at good prices all seasons
- • Nandi youth encouraged to take up opportunities in agribusiness
- • Nairobi-based mobile commerce agriculture startup receives $627,000 in seed funding
- • Student turns baking hobby into booming business
- • Youth builds own company that turns coconut husks waste into treasured planting medium
- • Digital innovations to food and agriculture that offer new services for youth and smallholder farmers in Africa
- • High yielding bull breed sires a heifer that can produce up to 57 liters of milk per day
- • Experts: Mechanising Africa’s agriculture can improve production and transform economies
- • Upcoming sugar factory by KVDA and Indian investors to buy cane from North Rift farmers
- • Kisumu to build seven digital weather stations to help farmers in crop production
- • Government urged to remove the newly introduced 16 per cent VAT on pesticides
- • Elgeyo Marakwet: How a quarter of an acre compound can give enough produce for food and sale
- • Agriculture ministry urges farmers to make own animal feeds to reduce production costs of milk
- • Government clears the air about claims of contaminated milk in the market
- • Kenya to host international farm tech expo in September
- • Farmers to pay more for pesticide as manufacturers move to implement VAT charges
- • Kenya Breweries Limited introduces a mobile app to manage sorghum production by contracted farmers
- • Bidco Africa looking for 25,000 farmers to grow sunflower and soya beans
- • Researchers set to develop rice variety that will up production in Kenya, Africa
- • Liquid Telecom Kenya launches internet network that will automate farming activities in the country
- • Government asks millers to buy all wheat from Kenyan farmers before importing
- • Dudutech launches natural biological solution to control fungal diseases
- • Kakamega farmer earns big from pig rearing after abandoning cane and maize farming
- • Government agency connects farmers to clean disease free seeds
- • High yielding drought resistant bean variety that matures in two months is ready for market
- • Kenyan coffee farmers could gain more income from the US
- • Over 6,500 sweet potato farmers in Migori County to find market for their produce
- • Green grams prices drop in Kitui due to over supply
- • National government to provide Meru farmers with certified potato seeds
- • Kenya overtakes South Africa, becomes biggest exporter of avocados in Africa
- • Tea prices drop hurting farmers’ income
- • Kenya to host Eastern and Southern Africa Dairy Association conference this month
- • Tanzania bans carrot imports from Kenya affecting smallholder farmers
- • New technology to help Nakuru farmers access farming information services launched
- • Export prices for cereals, dairy, sugar, meat and vegetable oils all decline-FAO
- • Agency to link 113,292 smallholder farmers with 244 buyers to sell commodities
- • Poultry farming side-hustle earns security expert Sh0.5m annually
- • New high yielding green gram variety suitable for Eastern Kenya can yield 1500kg per hectare
- • Tea farmers affected as global fertilizer prices rise by 15 per cent
- • KALRO launches a research study to demystify rising cases of livestock death and infertility in Kakamega County
- • Farmers in need of urgent market for their over 1.35 tonnes of garlic
- • Relief for maize farmers as government releases Sh1.4bn payment for produced delivered to cereals board
- • Over 150,000 Makueni farmers to benefit from farm services courtesy of Safaricom’s DigiFarm
- • New app connects farmers to tractors
- • Stimulating a reliable market for maize through public-private partnerships can benefit smallholder farmers
- • Government to establish special zones for production of livestock for export
- • Government launches online system to enable coffee farmers monitor sales at Nairobi Coffee Exchange
- • European Union requirements for farmers and horticultural exporters
- • Good news for Kenyan avocado farmers and traders as South African export market re-opens
- • KALRO develops smart technology to improve soil productivity in Mount Kenya region
- • Online platform enables farmers sell and buy all types of farm produce
- • FAO helps Kenyan farmers rescue harvest from Fall Armyworm
- • CABI launches new technology for fight against crop-devastating pest outbreaks in Kenya
- ► July (66)
- • High yielding tomato variety has a marketing span of one month
- • Village based advisors transforming agriculture and economies in Kiambu-AGRA
- • KEPHIS launches drought resistant and fast maturing crops in Siaya
- • Indian company introduces air-tight grains storage bags for Kenya farmers
- • Early planting and farmyard manure control bean stem maggot pest that causes wilting to the crop
- • Samburu County launches pasture production project to improve farmers’ income
- • A Guide to Buying Rhodes Grass Seeds in Kenya
- • New cost free method increases shelf life of potatoes from one week to seven months
- • Government to sponsor 118 fresh agriculture graduates to undertake internship in Israel
- • Why dairy production in Kenya is 60 per cent more expensive than in the neighboring countries
- • Research organization buying silkworms from farmers
- • Magic chia seeds earns farmer Sh1500 per kilo
- • University graduate milks Sh30,000 monthly from goats
- • KALRO to host international agricultural Farm-Tech Expo Kenya
- • Cold weather reduces milk production, lowering processors’ intake
- • Water and energy solutions firm launches irrigation systems in 24 counties
- • Armed pastoralists hinder IGAD’s proposal of free across borders movement
- • Government to vaccinate 300,000 livestock in Isiolo against Rift Valley Fever
- • Government launches trading screens in Nyeri and Kericho to enable farmers follow live coffee auction feeds
- • New Sweet potato varieties to earn Trans-Nzoia and West Pokot farmers Sh714,285 per acre
- • Government asks farmers to grow millet, sorghum, cassava and amaranth for blending with maize flour
- • Hybrid maize variety does well in semi-arid areas and matures in 75 days ready for fresh green market
- • Drip irrigation enables farmers to cultivate more with a few drops
- • Government launches Sh6.2bn plan to save farmers from a viral sheep and goat disease
- • Yellow capsicum has wider market, earns twice than red type
- • New farming technologies increases yields for farmers
- • Kitui farmers looking for buyers to purchase their green grams
- • Passion fruit shortage sparks price rise across major towns in Kenya
- • Jomo Kenyatta University launches automated irrigation system that saves water and increases yields
- • Bungoma County to build a Sh140m milk processing plant to improve area dairy farming
- • Kenyan agricultural exports to Tanzania hit five month high
- • Good news for Kenyan farmers as global avocado prices double on high demand
- • Bill seeking to protect farmers against losses in harsh weather introduced to parliament
- • IGAD’s seeks to stop pastoralists’ conflicts in Eastern Africa with new policy
- • Rift Valley Institute partners with Nakuru County to host agribusiness expo
- • Accountant's job or mushroom farming; mushrooms earn more
- • Kenya's horticulture sector eyes Chinese market to boost revenues
- • Coffee prices up by 18 per cent at the Nairobi auction
- • Newly launched maize flour maker buying maize from Busia farmers
- • Kiambu contractor is offering farmers ready rabbit market
- • Kiambu farmer supplying Nairobi hotels and restaurants with non-heading lettuce
- • Tech Company launches new app to boost rice yields
- • Agriculture ministry launches SMS platform to enable farmers receive Fall Armyworm alerts
- • Farmer applies pigs’ manure in celery farming to keep off moles
- • Association looking for farmers to rear rabbits
- • Removal of VAT from animal feeds’ ingredients by the government, relief to farmers and investors
- • Understanding East Coast fever in animals
- • Sugar prices rise sharply as cane supply declines
- • Oil firm buying canola, pumpkin, black and neem seeds from all-comers
- • International research organization warns of killer chemicals in Kenya’s milk, meat and maize
- • Government seeking to unlock milk export to Zambia
- • EU launches new project to improve women’s fortune in agribusiness in Nairobi
- • New Kenya Cooperative Creameries increases milk prices by four shillings to benefit smallholder farmers
- • Digital farming technologies can grow farmers’ annual profits by up to 70 per cent
- • Opinion: Vaccinating livestock against East Coast fever increases incomes of smallholder farmers
- • Kisii County gives farmers free milk coolers to up income
- • Kakamega dairy law to relieve farmers from over-reliance on sugarcane farming
- • KBL to distribute grain threshing machines to entice Nyanza farmers into sorghum farming
- • New fodder increases milk yields by 108 per cent and cuts production costs
- • Why fish production is declining in Kenya
- • Roasting soil helps deal with bacterial wilt
- • Hotelier’s poultry side hustle rakes Sh44,100 in a week, supplementing her income
- • Meru farmers rearing fish in greenhouses for better returns
- • KALRO to introduce new camel drug to bolster productivity
- • Kenya government plans to revive local sugar industries in bid to save ailing sector
- • Government asks farmers to grow more hay for export to Djibouti market
- ► June (57)
- • State corporation proposes new regulations to protect potato farmers from market exploitations
- • Uganda livestock researchers using genetic materials from Kenya to develop ant tick vaccine
- • Isiolo meat traders and livestock keepers affected due to Rift Valley fever outbreak
- • More effective crop covering material than polythene bags introduced in Kenya
- • Kenya's flowers, fruits and vegetables record a 40 per increase in sales in four months
- • Uganda surpass Kenya in milk production by over 1.96 billion litres
- • Processors to increase milk prices as cold season affect production
- • Nyandarua farmers form groups to market their potatoes
- • New device with 70 per cent artificial insemination rate coming to Kenya
- • Report: Kenya and Nigeria tops in the Agri-Tech Startup markets in Africa
- • Our fertilizer is clean, says world’s largest fertilizer distributor
- • Jaramogi University recruiting farmers to rear crickets
- • Government signs financial agreement with an international funding organization to boost fish farming in Kenya
- • Research organization to train farmers on poultry production
- • Canola farming ambassador builds his first oil extraction cottage industry in Nyeri
- • World-class trade platform to empower, inform and transition Kenya’s agri-value chain launched
- • Safaricom’s Digifarm opens four farmers’ depots in Meru County
- • Government gives Meru farmers free forest land to grow potatoes and peas
- • Amiran paste magically improves rose flower appeal
- • Online portal offers information to control deadly maize disease
- • Kitui County signs deal with South Eastern Kenya University to fatten farmers’ cows
- • Milk processor empowering youth in Kibera with business skills, reducing poverty and crime
- • Manufacturers of Kabras Sugar deny claims of poison in its product and assure Kenyan farmers it will continue buying cane
- • Rivatex East Africa Limited revives cotton farming in Kericho County
- • Moi University set to produce own Yoghurt
- • Free cashew nut seedlings for Coast farmers
- • Oserian Two Lakes Flower Park signs new France flower breeder
- • Techno Brain partners with Microsoft on digital agriculture platform to help farmers in Africa
- • The latest mobile application for your farm management
- • 76,000 farmers abandon sugarcane farming in Mumias
- • Kenya food imports rise by 30 per cent despite improved weather
- • Netherlands approves funds to implement a Climate & Food Security programme in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
- • Exporting company to train farmers on avocado production
- • Kenya Breweries now targets the youth with sorghum farming
- • How Limuru lady is earning big from strawberry farming
- • Biological solution controls soil diseases boosting crop development
- • Kenya to host the Fourth National Green Growth Conference and Exhibition
- • Why Passion fruit exporter is buying produce from Eldoret region
- • Crop rotation scales high Nyeri farm production at between 15-20 tonnes of produce per acre
- • Kenya Avocado Society recruiting farmers to plant the crop as demand soars
- • Why Kenyan flowers are doing well in the international markets despite the off-peak period
- • Nutritionist makes flour from traditional vegetable through value addition
- • Flower, fruit and vegetable producers and exporters seek government support to boost the sector
- • Mobile application that can monitor fish pond condition launched
- • Government releases one billion shillings to pay maize farmers
- • KALRO gives Busia farmers 55,000 free guava, gooseberry and jack fruit seedlings
- • Coffee farmers staring at losses berry disease destroys crop in Mt. Kenya region
- • Nandi farmer who abandoned maize for pineapples has no regrets
- • Automatic poultry drinkers minimize destruction on chicken and vaccination costs for farmers
- • Technology company launches digital smart brooder that monitors chicks brooding space
- • Transport company launches refrigerated bus to ferry fresh produce between Nairobi and Mombasa
- • Milk processor to buy more milk from farmers as it upgrades its plants
- • KALRO launches 14 more mobile applications for different crops production
- • Kenyan flower farmers to earn 10 times more thanks to direct flights to the USA
- • Online marketplace app connects farmers to buyers directly
- • Agency launches Business to Business Forum to help Busia County farmers access markets
- • Three Busia Dairy Co-operatives to benefit from milk coolers
- ► May (74)
- • Farmers capitalizing on the golden grains of Butere-Mumias
- • North Rift farmers earn Sh2.3bn from milk sales to Brookside
- • Taita Taveta County launches cow, sheep and goats auction to boost farmers' income
- • Chilli exporter manages strict international market rules by drying the crop
- • Third largest sugar factory in Nyanza region closes down affecting 23000 farmers
- • Report: Kenya and Uganda tops East Africa in fish production
- • New tree tomato fruits earn farmers Sh189,000 per acre in eight months
- • European Union to provide Sh1.2bn to boost regional fish farming industry
- • Research organization launches high yielding disease resistant Napier grass varieties
- • Poisonous weed destroys 45 per cent of pasture in Kajiado
- • Farmer turns to amaranth seeds to increase his earnings by Sh20,000
- • Government to launch sweet potato factory in Migori
- • Potato seed treatment technology boosts farmers’ income
- • Government to spend Sh600m to fight Fall Armyworms
- • BT cotton variety has potential to up production eight times
- • Government research organization to host first ever digital farmers’ conference
- • How to achieve high yields in bananas
- • Small-scale farmers who are making over Sh0.5m a year from mushroom farming
- • Mwingi farmer to earn Sh977,500 from sheep and goat sales
- • Global communities intensifies efforts to win more financiers to fund agricultural activities in East Africa
- • Coffee prices drop by 10 per cent affecting farmers’ income
- • Safaricom launches Digifarm Depot in Burnt Forest Town to up smallholder farmers’ income
- • Company opens new lab for animal nutrition to ensure higher quality feeds at low cost
- • Hay making method for smallholder farmers
- • Online platform links banana, potato and maize farmers to markets
- • Pioneering green technology could tackle Kenya pests and pathogens
- • Agriculture ministry projects 44 per cent increase in maize production this year
- • Farm uses technology to speed up fish maturity enhancing market linkages and sustainability
- • Government gives free avocado seedlings to Embu farmers
- • Early planting controls Fall Armyworm
- • Beekeeping side-hustle earns Masinga youth Sh58,000 monthly
- • From brooding chicks in her bedroom to Sh80,000 a month mixed farming venture
- • Mango juice factory to benefit 12,000 Makueni farmers
- • Fresh produce supplier receives $100,000 grant from global social impact programme Expo Live to grow farmers’ reach
- • Bomet farmer earns Sh12,600 a day from dairy farming
- • Government moves to pay outstanding debt for maize farmers
- • Kenya farmers grow yields and income with conservation agriculture
- • Part time farming earns Kisii teacher over Sh80, 000 a month
- • How to control East Coast Fever disease in cattle
- • Report: agri-tech companies earns Kenya Sh1.3bn foreign investment
- • Government sets aside Sh1.5bn to revive pyrethrum farming
- • Youth turns beekeeping hobby into a Sh700,000 agribusiness venture
- • How technology is transforming Africa’s agricultural industry
- • Form two dropout earns Sh3000 daily from banana value addition
- • FAO launches guidelines for forest usage permissions to benefit the society
- • Urban residents can reduce cost of living by using vertical bags to grow food
- • Mukurweini courgette farmer earning Sh100,000 a season by spreading out planting time
- • Opinion: To attain food security, the government needs to take back control of the smallholder farmers
- • Government agency trains fruits and vegetable exporters on international market requirements
- • Experts developing smart technology in poultry and dairy facing financial challenge
- • Potato and tomato prices rise sharply as maize and kales costs drop
- • New technology cuts banana ripening time by about 10 days
- • Tea prices drop due to increase in production
- • Rwanda smallholder framers to benefit from Africa’s biggest agriculture forum
- • New grain storage technology to help farmers avoid Sh15bn post-harvest losses
- • Naivasha farmer earns Sh175,000 a season from a three-quarter acre onion farm
- • Applying aflasafe chemical two to three weeks ahead of maize flowering stops aflatoxin
- • Researchers develop a simple transporter machine which can be used to carry farm produce
- • Government agency to train farmers on how to improve their cattle breeds for free
- • Kericho farmers to adopt avocado farming to diversify their income
- • Molo farmer intercrops potato and garden peas, earning year round income
- • Company contracts farmers to supply supermarkets with onions, tomatoes, kales, spinach and mushrooms
- • Nyamira family joins hands in farm labour to up their income
- • Kenya faces wheat shortage as farmers abandon the crop
- • Once jobless youth turns cassava root into about a half a million business venture
- • Murang’a farmer earns Sh30,000 from a single aerial yam stem
- • Five feeds to boost your cow’s fertility
- • Kisumu County renews plans to revive cotton farming to benefit farmers within Lake Victoria basin
- • Mushroom venture earns Juja youth Sh30,000 a day
- • Government’s maize flour blending policy to reduce shortage and promote sorghum, millet and cassava farming
- • Ministry to provide free milk coolers to farmer cooperatives to avoid wastage
- • Why sugarcane production is on the decline in Kenya
- • Affordable internet enabling farmers improve food production
- • Sex lure trap controls pest causing rejection of chilli in export markets
- ► April (61)
- • European Union to fund over 15,000 coast farmers to grow cashew nuts and sesame (simsim)
- • USAID launches Sh28bn project to help over 200,000 Rwandan farmers improve crop yields
- • Firm develops an app to help farmers request for tractor services
- • Steps to follow in certifying seeds
- • County milk factory that provides constant milk price for farmers
- • How to stop deadly rice disease
- • 2,000 workers staring at job losses as international company closes two flower farms
- • Vanilla farming can earn a farmer Sh16,000 per tree
- • Government to build small dams for households to collect rain water
- • Cabbages, kales and tomatoes earns graduate Sh120,000 in profits in three months
- • Government sets up research centre to promote silkworm farming in western Kenya
- • How to control deadly maize weed
- • Brookside records 30 per cent increase in farmers’ milk supply
- • Coffee factory looking for farmers to supply the produce
- • Exporter looking for farmers to grow French beans and Passion fruits
- • Flowers, fruits and vegetables export increases Kenya’s earnings by Sh89bn
- • Mushroom value addition earns a Kakamega youth group Sh2,600 more
- • Backyard beehives can offer farmers 13 per cent increase in annual honey yields
- • Masters graduate creates own job with mushroom farming in Kakamega
- • Simlaw Seeds new capsicum variety doubles yields
- • Feeding dairy cows on sorghum increases milk production by 47 per cent
- • International supermarket launches campaign to buy avocados, tomatoes, watermelons and vegetables from local farmers
- • Government organization encourages Uasin Gishu farmers to plant potatoes instead of maize due to Fall Armyworm infestation
- • County government initiative to save residents from 80 per cent milk deficit
- • University receives machine to control aflatoxin from Mexican government
- • Neem leaves save Nakuru farms from pests
- • Growing purple tea is seven times more profitable than traditional tea varieties
- • Disease resistant giant grass can increase milk production by 25 per cent
- • Oil maker looking for farmers to supply them with moringa seeds
- • Farming side hustle earns sales representative Sh50,000 a week
- • Farmers to earn Sh11 more per litre by selling milk to Brookside
- • Government launches macadamia farming in Embu
- • Crop nutrition company launches fertiliser with 25 per cent nitrogen content that reduces soil acidity
- • KALRO lists recommended insecticides to control Fall Armyworm
- • WhatsApp group saves farmer’s tomatoes
- • Beer maker launches new high yielding sorghum variety that can withstand harsh weather
- • Fungus that protects crops against soil-borne diseases and improve yields
- • Sahiwal and Jersey cow breeds most suitable for arid and semi-arid areas
- • Government says farmers who fail to register risk losing out on subsidized fertilizer
- • Fungicide spray that can help farmers control five field pests
- • Plan to improve regional road networks, good news for small-scale farmers
- • Government agency helps farmers sell passion fruits and avocadoes
- • Kenya to host conference to discuss ways to control Fall Armyworm in June 2018
- • Kenyan flower and vegetable farmers to learn new ways to make money in farming at trade trip in Netherlands
- • Farmers count on grafting for more yields and incomes
- • Avocado exporter looking for 10,000 farmers to grow the crop
- • Farmer selling grafted apple varieties that mature within one year
- • Sacco offering soft loan to farmer groups
- • Maize production to decline by 30 per cent as farmers face shortage of two million bags of fertilizer
- • Cheap and simple trap that can end Fall Armyworms in less than a week
- • Macadamia value rises by 19 per cent leading to high demand
- • Drip kit saves over 70 per cent water in kitchen garden irrigation
- • NGO turning untilled land into an income generating venture
- • Government gives free 60,000 orange fleshed sweet potato vines to farmers
- • Farmer boosts maize nutrition with soy beans
- • Research organization introduces push-pull technology to stop fall armyworm
- • Farmer triples his income by growing orange fleshed sweet potato
- • Pesticide that doubles fruits, vegetables and grain yields
- • Government launches livestock insurance policy to help farmers prevent losses
- • Nyandarua farmers growing popular flowers for export
- • Time your chilli for maximum profits during high demand
- ► March (67)
- • Research organization releases a new green gram variety for dry areas
- • Researchers seek to save mango farmers from all-time post-harvest losses
- • Farmer targets more income with rising demand for rare crops
- • Uasin Gishu farmers dump maize for pepper
- • Onion variety that provide farmer access to early markets
- • Seed company launches fast maturing, high yielding maize variety
- • Nairobi Company launches mobile app to help dairy farmers maintain records
- • Exporter to abandon pineapples for avocados targeting high profit
- • Research organization introduces cowpea varieties that can yield four tonnes per acre
- • Government seed agency warns farmers of fake seeds in the market
- • Eldoret exporter urgently buying red chilli
- • Farmers milking money from dairy farming in West Pokot
- • Company provides platform for farmers to sell vegetables in Nairobi shopping malls
- • County government to build own sugar factory saving farmers transport costs
- • Mombasa Company invests in coconut husk briquettes to save forests
- • New pesticide sprayer helps farmers reduce chemical wastage
- • Flower company gives free sheep to Maasai herders to increase their income
- • Food and beverage company plans to improve coffee farmers' yields
- • Local youth group reports saving on baking costs by using sunlight
- • Farmer earns Sh100,000 a month from selling pig, cow and chicken feeds
- • New market for rabbit farmers
- • New planting method increases Napier grass yields by 20 per cent and milk yields by 50 per cent
- • Biofuel manufacturer contracts Laikipia farmers to grow croton trees
- • Coastal region neem tree growers find market from Malindi soap maker
- • Passion fruits, French beans and snap peas farmers win bid to supply Nairobi businessman
- • Beer maker contracts 500 Kisumu farmers to grow white sorghum
- • FAO launches mobile app to control fall armyworm
- • Nairobi exporter urgently buying fresh green chilli from farmers
- • Milk company to buy produce from over 160,000 farmers
- • Bee keeping in farms increases crop yields by 70 per cent, research finds
- • Flour companies urgently buying maize from all-comers
- • Organic folia feed stops premature falling of flowers and fruits
- • Government launches value addition project to market potato
- • How to stop CBPP disease killing your herd
- • How bookkeeping is changing life of Narok Farmer
- • New sunflower and soyabeans market opens up for Kenyan farmers
- • Farmers double yields with official seeds
- • Government gives free chicks to women moving them from illicit brewers to chicken keepers
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- • Simlaw Seeds introduces new high yielding tomato variety
- • Government finds machine to produce twice the pyrethrum from farmers' plants
- • Thika pickle Company maker buys tomatoes, onions and garlic across Kenya
- • Bamboo farmers win contract to power Bidco furnaces
- • App helps farmer predict his farming business
- • School uses sacks to grow vegetables instead of buying
- • Farmer reports prices twice as high besides highways than through middlemen
- • Ways to maintain farm records
- • Narok farmer earns Sh8,000 a week from traditional vegetables
- • Combining manure and fertilizer doubles crop yields
- • Strathmore University launches business farming training programme
- • Kisumu poultry farmers to benefit from Sh100m government support
- • Farmers earn Sh1000 more a year from rainbow rooster eggs
- • Kuresoi farmer saves Sh6000 monthly by selling milk to a cooperative
- • Western Kenya to receive rains for the next four days, says Weatherman
- • Maize farming earns farmer double benefits
- • Farmers can earn 25 per cent harvest more using P-Mazao fertiliser
- • NGO inspires value addition of produce for rural farmers
- • Farm Company launches mini tractor for smallholder farmers
- • Honey farm earns Sh700 more per kilogram by value addition
- • Water harvesting increases Mwingi farmer’s livestock herd
- • New technology helps farmer produce potato seeds in three weeks
- • Dairy farmers to earn over Sh4.5bn from KCC plant upgrade programme
- • Farmer grows short-term crops to earn big in just 67 days
- • Agricultural Center to provide free two day training for Murang’a farmers
- • Expect minimal rains this year, says Weatherman
- • Seed Company develops drought and disease resistant maize varieties
- • Nyamira youth earning Sh1.25m a year from mixed farming
- ► February (28)
- • Oserian’s vuvuzela flower variety gains popularity in Kenya
- • Seed Co introduces new maize variety tolerant to lethal necrosis disease
- • Makueni farmer adopts bottle drip irrigation for his pawpaws
- • Maasai herder adopts smart way to avert drought loses
- • Rice husks, stalks value addition to benefit Mwea rice farmers
- • Fact sheet: Seed suppliers in Kenya
- • Diagnosis and control of cattle calves diarrhea
- • 20,000 Meru farmers to benefits from sorghum value addition
- • Amiran launches tomato variety resistant to bacterial wilt
- • Farmer makes Sh50,000 more a season from tomatoes by avoiding sales orders
- • Fact sheet on Guatemala grass
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- • Flower Farm bets on natural solutions to grow flowers
- • Machakos farmer to make Sh600,000 a month from mushroom farming
- • Garden turns breeding beauty birds into a tourist attraction venture
- • Wooden backyard pond keeps away fish predators
- • NGO launches app to help pastoralists locate water and grazing areas
- • Government lifts ban on avocado exports
- • Farmers to pump water for free with bicycle
- • Fact Sheet on Pepino melon farming
- • KEBS reduces food production certification period from 77 days to 57 days
- • Zimbabwean business lady excels in dried food
- ► January (32)
- • Agricultural stakeholders to market potato as the food of choice
- • Siaya banker earns Sh83, 000 a month from fruit seedlings side-hustle
- • Naro Moru farmer gains buyers through Facebook
- • Government launches programme in colleges to increase tilapia production
- • Nigerian businessman gives farmers ready market
- • Family earns Sh100,000 a month on banana farming
- • Off season: Kisii farmers earn Sh750,000 a month on tomato cultivation
- • Scientist creates app to detect crop diseases
- • Farmers triple income by joining coops
- • Nyamira group excels in banana marketing
- • Government bans avocado exports on shortages
- • Siaya County farmer earns Sh10,000 a day on poultry side-hustle
- • Potato farmers opt for free seeds from food processing companies despite its risks
- • Factory gives Nyanza farmers free lime for soils
- • Government gives Nyamira farmers pumps to get river water in dry seasons
- • Mombasa farmer rears ornamental birds on worm-diet, halfs costs
- • Kenya Breweries Ltd to contract 30,000 sorghum farmers as demand soars
- • Quality seeds and ready market gives hope for Kitui ‘ndengu’ farmer
- • Nandi farmer increases milk yields fourfold with silage technology
- • Dryland Seed Limited to aid Kitui farmers increase green grams yields to 900 kgs
- • Red Tropicana F1 onion variety triples West Pokot farmer’s income
- • Grafted mango variety doubles Kitui farmer’s yields
- • Agriculture ministry launches avocado farming in Embu
- • Beer company assists Narok farmers get quality barley seeds upping yields
- • Makueni’s Kikima Dairy plant to save farmers from milk wastages
- • Kisii company selling backpack portable weeding machine
- • New improved Newcastle disease resistant Kuroiler kienyeji chicken in the market
- • Microchip tags to tame cattle theft, spur sales in Laikipia
- • Star organic farmer championing toxic-free food production
- • Kenyan farmers embrace high yielding super cow
- • This dry season: Nyamira farmer teaming with colleagues to make good use of water sources
- • Star vineyard farmer establishes own wines company
- ► December (11)
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- ► December (15)
- • New designed fibre decorticator machines for small scale farmers
- • Miracle a half an acre farm in Thika
- • Nyeri farmer earns Sh50, 000 in a week from selling pepino melon seedlings
- • Farmers group help Makueni farmers milk cash from mangoes
- • Value addition increase Siaya groundnut farmers’ income 29 times
- • Automated fruit drying machine points over 500 farmers to ripe markets
- • Kisii farmer earns Sh50, 000 per week from zucchini farming
- • Accountant’s job or pepino melons; melons earn more
- • Strawberry farmer targets to earn Sh40, 000 per week during this year’s festive season
- • Kisumu agriprenuer reaches over 10, 000 farmers with fibre extraction machine
- • Dual purpose mastitis resistant cow for smallholder farmers
- • Seed shortage creates a lifelong venture for potato farmer
- • How to spot fake seeds in the market
- • Why he abandoned maize and wheat for hay production
- • Star farmer: Narok tomato farmer earns Sh3m form his wooden greenhouses
- ► November (59)
- • Nandi farmer: I earn Sh20, 000 in a week from pineapple farming
- • Farmers to start planting new rice variety early next year
- • ICIPE turns to farmer groups in Western Kenya to spread ‘push-pull’ technology
- • Nyamira farmers training on fall army worm control set for Dec 19th
- • Modern beehives double honey yields for farmers
- • Solar incubator saves farmer hatching costs
- • Kenyan farmers to access import, export information in five minutes on online portal
- • Dairy farmer riding on proper breeding for high and quality production
- • KEPHIS unveils 140 new disease resistant seed varieties
- • Kakamega farmer: I make Sh90,000 per week from my indigenous chicken
- • Sh20, 000 is what a tree of kiwi fruit can earn a farmer per harvest
- • Value addition improves livelihoods of mango farmers in Kitui
- • The story of bees and the liquid gold of an Ogiek farmer
- • Five dairy goats have more returns than a dairy cow
- • Here is how you can utilize waste in your farm to grow mushrooms
- • FAO: Millions of people at risk of hunger malnutrition and poverty due to climate change
- • How to grow better bananas in Western Kenya
- • Agro Company unveils all-season tomato variety
- • High quality grafted fruit seedlings for Nyanza farmers
- • Casual labourer increases his wages by selling cabbage wastes
- • Adopting fodder crop farming improves farmer’s income
- • JKUAT trains farmers on cricket farming
- • Better seeds help African farmers see higher yields and incomes
- • Cockroach milk could be the protein ingredient you have been missing
- • Vetiver grass’s multi-purpose usage draws many farmers
- • Eating crickets can end malnutrition in children
- • Banana pseudo stems value addition creating jobs for Kirinyaga women and youth
- • Potato seed multiplication earns farmer good cash
- • Government to dry maize for farmers to stem losses
- • Banana fibre turn the tide for an entrepreneur in Kirinyaga County
- • Technology improves soil fertility through green innovation
- • Kenya Dairy Board warns of dangerous milk in the market
- • Call to regain Kenya’s passion
- • Shortage of potato seeds slows production in Bomet
- • Potato farming transforming lives of thousands of Kenyan smallholder farmers
- • USAID funds automated air drier to boost factory’s processing capacity
- • Weatherman predicts good tidings for dry land livestock farmers
- • WHO warns use of antibiotics in healthy animals
- • Nandi farmers using ‘Kangara’ to treat foot and mouth disease
- • Why Nantes carrot variety is the farmers’ choice
- • Shanty F1 tomato variety earning Laikipia farmer cool cash
- • Potato value addition earns Nyeri farmers sh10000 daily
- • Proper banana farming management has good returns
- • Facts on spring onion farming
- • Malindi best market for farmers’ agro produce
- • To stop Newcastle disease in chicken, vaccinate your flock
- • High demand for avocadoes, honey and aloe vera in Kenyan industries
- • Choosing the right variety of potatoes scales up farmer’s income
- • Sahiwal breed earns Meru farmer more profit
- • Kiambu farmer making a kill with ornamental birds
- • Egerton World Ploughing Championships to bring forth Canadian Team
- • Silage making method for smallholder farmers
- • Uasin Gishu farmers counting losses due to heavy rains
- • Collective bargaining helps farmers’ cooperative earn 2bn from potato farming
- • Tomato farming creates a 4.3M job for Laikipia youth
- • Poultry keeping transforms lives of chang'aa brewers in Uasin Gishu
- • Macadamia farming, saving Nyeri residents from alcoholism
- • Free Avocado seedlings for Kirinyaga farmers
- • SMS farmer narrates his success story with WeFarm
- ► October (43)
- • Keeping high number of chicken cuts farmer's production cost
- • Free farmers’ training set for 29th November in Kabete
- • Promising Sweet Potato varieties in North Rift Valley
- • Best wheat varieties for the dry areas of Kenya
- • SF2 solar pump increases water pumping fourfold
- • Heads of state push for new national accountability in driving African agriculture
- • Agricultural transformation strategy to rescue idle land
- • Dry land crops to curb hunger and malnutrition developed
- • Production of Kales (Sukuma wiki) and Onions Using Bucket Drip Irrigation
- • Plastic mulching technology for enhanced yields
- • Drying mangoes saves farmers post-harvest loses
- • Grafting watermelon provide protection against soil-borne diseases increasing yields
- • Tissue culture banana planting guidelines
- • Programme to promote indigenous vegetables gaining momentum
- • New Advanced Blood Pregnancy-Test for cows to boost profit for dairy farmers
- • Village Industrial Power offering innovative clean energy for rural farmers
- • SRAR 9065 F1 is the new money maker tomato
- • More than 6,000 farmers benefit from free green grams seeds in Kitui
- • Magic Protein for increased Milk Yields
- • Kenya Government to buy 90 kg bag of maize at Sh. 3200 from farmers
- • ‘Iko-Lishe’ programme for hydroponic fodder production at low cost
- • Alfasafe protects your maize from deadly aflatoxin
- • Kukuchic Limited selling high quality Rainbow Rooster Kienyeji chicks
- • Alcohol milk testing gun saves farmers milk rejection
- • Cooperative Society helps farmers own land and Manage Agribusiness
- • AgroNet reduces cost of pest control improves yields
- • Researchers: Banana pseudo stems are rich source of quality fibres
- • Former Police Officer Strikes Gold with Guatemala Grass
- • AfriKelp LG-1 prevents abortion of flowers increasing yields quality and quantity
- • Maize Storage Quality controls for food safety
- • Research Institute Develops Juice from ‘Mukombero plant’
- • Hairy vetch, more than a fodder crop
- • Appropriate Cattle Breeds for Dairying in Marginal areas
- • Meeting a cow’s basic feeding needs is key in milk production
- • Ebwana Tereka cassava variety produces many tubers in short time
- • Farmers advised to use Clean, Natural Organic Humix Soil in GreenHouses
- • New crop rolled out with potential to end hunger in East Africa
- • Doom for Smallholder Farmers as Kenya’s Maize Production set to drop in 2017
- • Proper care of dairy cow improves milk production
- • Own feed assures livestock farmers high production
- • Solar Milk Pasteurizer to prolong milk shelf life
- • Farmers are making a kill with Kenbro chicken
- • The Post-harvest Loss (PHL) danger; We must face it straight on!
- ► September (63)
- • The lucrative Indigenous vegetable business
- • Giant Egyptian Pumpkin seeds available for farmers
- • Soil testing improving farmers out put
- • Irrigation helping Kirinyaga farmers boost their Sweet potato production
- • Four diets to boost milk production during the dry season
- • Online trading platform to increase farmers' incomes
- • Ex-Mukurweini sweet potato variety is good for food and fodder
- • Crops to grow for Export to reap maximum returns
- • You may not rear pigs but make their feeds and earn too
- • Research: Human Urine effective Agricultural fertilizer
- • Maize huller machine saves time for ‘muthokoi’ lovers
- • Simple device for trimming fences and weeds
- • Bamboo firm helping farmers grow their own forests
- • Why you should intercrop Napier grass with Desmodium
- • Vitamark Joto livestock salt boosts estrus rate in dairy cows
- • Water harvesting techniques for smallholder and large-scale farmers
- • Hanging gardens feeding urban families
- • Long experience makes farmer an all-time county champion
- • Safe and Effective Use of Pesticides
- • Naivasha Flower Farm establishes nutrition garden to supplement staff feeding
- • Heavy rains coming, chance for water harvesting
- • Queen F1 Cabbage Variety can earn Farmers Ksh. 167,500 in 85 days
- • Medicinal Juice from trees can treat over 300 diseases
- • African agriculture: who will own the future?
- • Beyond Access: Breaking Barriers for Women in Agriculture
- • Cocoa in a world of global environmental changes – time for “uncommon collaboration”
- • Seeds, not Diamonds, will Make Africa Great
- • Measuring Africa’s agricultural takeoff is set to make billionaires, from ‘poor men’s fields’
- • Grafted Johnson Keeper apples variety available in Kenya
- • Factory fronting commercial plantation of bamboo
- • Murang’a Farmer Reaping Big from Aerial Yams
- • Study: Organic agriculture generates comparable yields for income and health benefits for farmers
- • Promising sweet potato varieties in Western Kenya
- • Wefarm connects over 300,000 farmers in Kenya and Uganda
- • Diagnosis and Control of Cattle Calves Diarrhea
- • Dairy goat farm changing farmers’ lives through trainings
- • Cricket farming for value addition
- • Farmers can diversify their sources of income by growing grapes
- • Fruit farming saving eastern region farmers from erratic rainfall
- • Major Deals to Accelerate Africa's Path to Prosperity through Agriculture Agreed
- • African smallholders can double their yields with half the water
- • Animal Drawn Planters for Vertisols and Lighter Red Soils to Save Labor and Time
- • Fall Armyworm Status: Impacts and control options in Africa
- • Experts: Learn lessons from success to beat malnutrition in Africa
- • Africa faces permanent $2bn+ maize deficit if Fall Armyworm poorly managed
- • Plastic ban, relief for Lake Victoria fishermen
- • Kenyan student makes bag from Banana barks & leaves
- • Potato cyst nematode pest can reduce up to 80% potato production in Kenya
- • Empowering Smallholder Farmers for Increased Agricultural Productivity
- • Brachiaria termed better than Napier in push-pull technology
- • Champions for Nutrition, Food Security and Agribusiness Named Winners of 2017 Africa Food Prize
- • Varsity students invent technology that manipulates sex of fish
- • Multi-million dollar Partnership for Inclusive Agricultural Transformation in Africa launched
- • ICIPE’s biopesticide reduce tick infestation in livestock by 70% to 81%
- • Nutritional & medicinal Value of mushrooms
- • Farmers resort to bench marking to improve on production
- • KEPHIS introduces 52 new disease resistant potato varieties
- • Environment-friendly pest control methods
- • FACT SHEET: Controlling DiamondBack moth in vegetables
- • Proper indigenous chicken management increases production
- • Bomet farmer earning over half a million shillings monthly from dairy farming
- • KALRO selling high quality Banana Tissue culture seedlings
- • Green grams and groundnuts retailing highest across Kenyan markets
- ► August (40)
- • KALRO launches online farmer platforms
- • Using agricultural waste to grow mushrooms
- • Discover hidden treasure in local chicken
- • Farmers growing Sesame (simsim) have a wide range of benefits
- • Uasin Gishu Based CBO abandons crop farming for chicken rearing
- • Youths encouraged to embrace self-employment by strawberry farming
- • Agricultural centre trains over 1, 800 farmers yearly for free
- • Experts recommend inter-cropping Nuts and legumes with other crops
- • Farmer championing rooftop gardening in Mombasa
- • Kisumu Entrepreneur Producing Paper from Water Hyacinth
- • Seedman Selling Red Delicious Apple Seeds
- • Simple Method to reduce storage losses in beans
- • X-Agro field officer goes organic with maize farming
- • Uasin Gishu farmers decry loss of livestock to mysterious animal
- • Alfacyper-M 100EC insecticide fights maize streak virus
- • Polythene bag silage technology for increased milk yield
- • Mfarm empowers smallholder farmers with easy market access
- • Wet Salting Technology improves quality of hides and skins
- • Calving detector, new way to manage calving
- • Unpredictable rainfall triggers water harvesting among small holder farmers
- • Maize Nixtamalization reduces aflatoxin by 60-70%
- • KALRO warns of bokoboko banana disease
- • Vertical bag farms, relief to small holder farmers
- • The Mediae Company motivate youth into farming through Television
- • Unique and fast maturing pumpkin seeds ready for farmers
- • Nandi farmers receive Ksh. 2.5 million pesticides to fight army worms
- • Know and protect bees to improve crop yields
- • These bean varieties produce higher yields in North Rift Valley
- • Duma and Ngamia Wheat Varieties thrive in the dry areas of Kenya
- • How to get a fertile cow for more milk and calves
- • Africa’s Growth lies with Smallholder Farmers
- • Fact sheet on controlling Maize smut disease
- • Control fall armyworms with this simple procedure
- • Agro firm unveils poultry’s I-2 ND Vaccine
- • Solar and wind hybrid drier saves food
- • Farmers using diatomite for pest control
- • Mixed farming immune farmer from severe losses
- • World Vision partner with Farmers’ group to help farmers in Nyamira
- • KALRO offers training to poultry farmers
- • WhatsApp group help farmers access farming Information
- ► July (15)
- • Water hyacinth provides good substrate for mushroom farming
- • ICIPE recognized as a global hub for bee health expertise
- • Grain processing plant to benefit East Africa farmers
- • Saleslady ventures into Onion farming to diversify her income
- • Seeds, not Diamonds, will Make Africa Great
- • Kenyan Farmers to get connected to the World’s Largest Peer-to-Peer Farmer Knowledge Sharing Network
- • Pan-African organizations Partner for Nature and Agriculture
- • Murang’a farmers riding on Charentais Melon
- • Drying vegetables increases shelf life to over eight months
- • Farmer turns to short season maize to escape lethal necrosis disease
- • Stick harvesting cuts potato losses
- • Low supply triples cabbage cost in Mombasa
- • Human urine best fishpond fertiliser, research says
- • Increased tomato supply reduces profits
- • Crisps reduce farmer's mango losses
- ► June (19)
- • Device saves over 60 per cent nutrient leaching loss
- • Cowdung stops snakes from feeding on fish
- • Turbo ups tractor efficiency by 30 per cent
- • OPINION: African governments move into race to halt armyworm catastrophe
- • Maize protect peas for EU export
- • Surrogate mother brooding increases egg laying frequency
- • Canola extracts curb potato nematodes
- • Information can increase access to fertiliser subsidy
- • Aloe vera keeps off poultry diseases
- • Tractor solves costs puzzle to smallholders
- • Sharing information with farmers bolsters production
- • A pair earns exotic birds fan over Sh30,000
- • Technology offers cheaper dairy cows
- • Fodder offers alternatives to rising cost of commercial feeds
- • Easy tricks of selling the much demanded soy beans
- • Traders sell more from tomato influx
- • Farmers saves over Sh30,000 with artificial insemination
- • More farmers certified to sell avocado in EU
- • MPesa eases farmers' inputs loan repayments
- ► May (30)
- • Africa Food Prize competition submissions closing soon
- • Tomato trickling into the market eases price
- • Increased milk yield shakes prices downwards
- • Uganda dominates regional agro-produce export
- • Rabbit urine cuts pesticide and fertiliser costs
- • Production plan reduces snap peas losses by 40 per cent
- • Avocado price triples in Malindi
- • Internet ends bees varroa virus pest
- • Russian boycott of EU products opens market for Kenyan farmers
- • Beans prices rise as maize remains scarce
- • Tomato prices drop a month after rains
- • Kenyan traders resort to Uganda for cheaper maize
- • Farmer turns dove pets into agribusiness
- • Brachiaria grass rescues farmer's cow from drought
- • Green maize cost hits Sh8,000 in Mombasa
- • Smearing fish ponds with lime stops seepage
- • Farmer soars with Chinese cabbage
- • High yielding rust tolerant soy bean introduced into Kenya
- • Tomato prices start falling
- • Loitoktok town selling cheapest maize
- • Steamed beans save cooking costs
- • Global avocado demand doubles prices
- • Food fortification offers amaranth seeds market
- • Milk farmers turn to hawkers for profits
- • Towns offering double prices for fresh peas
- • Farmers pump water free with bicycle
- • Farmers ordering tractor services by phone
- • Drought pushes potato prices high
- • Packaging honey earns student more profits
- • Covering maize with bags reduces bird invasion
- ► April (22)
- • Plant extracts show positive results in containing fall armyworm
- • Experts meet in Nairobi to solve fall armyworm menace in Africa
- • Pineapple export market is wide for Kenya
- • Towns beat Nairobi in agro-produce prices
- • Maize price may remain high with worm invasion
- • Farmer beats drought with simsim
- • Simple knocks tell mature watermelons
- • Trenches save surface run-off water for semi-arid irrigation
- • Milk prices to drop with rains
- • Organisation breeds rice for highlands
- • Prioritise agriculture for development, Africa governments urged
- • Charcoal chicks brooder for off the grid farmers
- • Aflasafe ends aflatoxin agony
- • Fruits buy maize for farmer's family
- • Tomato prices rising against low supply
- • Kenya may benefit from the Brexit
- • Kisii farmer manages dairy cows from Meru via mobile phone
- • Mombasa paying highest prices for agro-produce
- • African agribusiness stakeholders to meet in continental conference
- • New icipe facility to offer cheaper fruit-fly pesticide
- • Irrigation keeps pawpaws producing
- • Sexual luring may end fall army worm
- ► March (20)
- • Baby corn best for short season rains
- • It is one irrigation in two months with polythene mulching
- • Telegram group offers farmers free info
- • Mombasa paying highest for groundnuts
- • App alerts buyers of prospected harvest
- • Avocado farmers to earn more from EU in April
- • Cotton farmers to earn more as shortage bites
- • Water hyacinth turned to animal feed
- • Some 23,000 potato farmers to access markets
- • Tractor weeds a maize and potato acre for Sh200
- • Prison officer makes beauty products from beeswax
- • Farmer buys a cow from solar irrigation savings
- • Green maize cost triples in Mombasa
- • Taming avocado pests eases entry into EU market
- • Farmer's Choice offers constant pig market
- • Chinese Mango Festival offers Kenya export market
- • Irrigation boosts banana yield by 30%
- • New tomato variety resists leaf curl virus and wilting
- • Cassava flour company offers farmers market
- • Greenhouses boost property sales
- ► February (17)
- • Mulching helps farmer avoid drought effects
- • Rabbit market crops up in Kiambu
- • Farmers get 80% asset financing
- • Routine chicks vaccination boots survival
- • Farmpro youths offer farmers production and marketing solutions
- • Month-old chicks more profitable than day old
- • New Farmpro fodder doubles milk
- • Introduce new feeds gradually to avoid stressing chicken
- • Stored fodder gives farmer milk during drought
- • Onions stop tomato aphids attack
- • Supplier makes over Sh50,000 weekly as demand for vegetables surges
- • Sack farming cuts irrigation water
- • Bantams are cheap profitable birds to rear
- • soil steaming cuts tomato losses
- • Spinach farmer earns more by avoiding middlemen
- • Agreprenuer earns twice from ripening other farmers' bananas
- • Vegetable prices double in Nairobi
- ► January (16)
- • Feeding increases milk production
- • Exotic birds are more profitable than chicken
- • Turkeys hatch for guinea fowls
- • Mixed farming earns agripreneur double cash
- • Livestock farmers to save Sh160 with cheap foot and mouth vaccine
- • OPINION: Set for Take off – Kenya’s Agriculture Sector Ready for Increased Investments
- • Heat kills dreaded bee pests
- • Used engine oil tames termites
- • Dual purpose brown chicken gives farmer close to 300 eggs yearly
- • Cassava factory offers farmers ready market for produce
- • East Africa poultry farmers warned over avian flu outbreak
- • Whatsapp helps poultry farmer make more sales on festive season
- • Tomato farmer targets harsh weather to make profits
- • Farmer intercrops maize with vetch to boost milk production
- • SoilCares mobile soil lab gives farmers results in three hours
- • Poultry farmer makes over 25 per cent profit from end-year festivities
- ► December (15)
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- ► December (11)
- • Farmer selling nyama choma goats in Nairobi and Nakuru
- • Demand for passion fruit opens new frontier for coffee farmer
- • Cactus is water and feed for livestock on dry spells
- • Bagging bananas quickens maturity by two weeks
- • Poultry farmer fights fleas with banana peels
- • Water dam saves farmer over Sh6,000 per month in irrigation bills
- • Organic fertiliser doubles onions, helps farmer penetrate new market
- • Brachiaria grass triples Siaya farmer's milk production
- • Solar pump helps farmer rear fish away from the river
- • Farmer earns more from green maize than grains
- • Fly-trap tames livestock parasites
- ► November (27)
- • Calendar reversal helps farmer conquer the market
- • Mulberry leaves offer livestock double Napier grass proteins
- • Giant pumpkins earn farmer over Sh140,000
- • Controlled containers boost Kenyan avocado export market
- • Gradual feed increment keeps milk yield steady after parturition
- • Farmers access loans with stored grains
- • G-Soko and warehouses save farmers over 30 per cent grain loss
- • Online advertiser, OLX, opens retails for farmers
- • Hermetic bag keeps off grain pests for over two years, averts losses
- • Humic acid doubles crop harvest
- • Low nitrogen and drought tolerant maize gives over 20 bags per acre
- • JKUAT aerial farm saves urbanites kitchen costs
- • Greenhouse crop rotation quadruples farmer's yields
- • Online marketplace offers farmers and buyers better prices
- • Growing drought tolerant maize gives 270kg more per acre
- • Persimmon fruit fetching over Sh700 per kilo for Nyeri farmers
- • Plastic-fused slab helps sand soil farmers rear fish
- • OPINION: Ecological farming is key to food security, climate change
- • Pigs turn waste into manure
- • Manual oil extractor to save avocado farmers from losses
- • JKUAT students find solution to tomato bacteria wilt
- • Organic fertiliser saves Mwea farmer's rice from drought
- • Solar incubator saves farmers when power outages occur
- • One pumpkin can earn farmers over Sh7,000 in four months
- • Fodder sorghum doubles milk
- • Farmers thresh 110kg of wheat per hour free with KALRO machine
- • Farm selling low rainfall pumpkins
- ► October (9)
- • Exporter wants runner beans
- • Agripreneur sells potted crops for urban rooftop farming
- • Company flavours tea to boost youth consumption
- • Brewery wants sorghum and millet
- • Farmers spend Sh94 to winnow over 500kg grains per hour
- • Gutters zero greenhouse irrigation costs for vegetable farmers
- • Stove turns killer gas to cooking energy and charcoal from waste
- • Piglet teeth clipping stops mastitis
- • Manual decordicator shells 30 times more groundnuts than hand
- ► September (28)
- • Farmer sells guinea pigs by roasting them for consumers
- • Firm fixes boigas on loans
- • Molasses secures livestock silage for over a year for farmers
- • Yellow staking strings attract tomato pests, expert warns farmers
- • Six months maturing drought resistant arrowroots enter Kenya
- • Plastic biogas digesters fit changing livestock size
- • Exotic beans boost Nyeri farmer's milk output by three litres
- • JKUAT Shujaa Tractor to cut farmer's tillage costs by five times
- • Farmers to pump water free with JKUAT stream hydram
- • Feeding dairy cattle with yeast adds farmers three litres of milk
- • Algae-based organic fertiliser doubles crop and livestock yields
- • KEFRI power saw gauge saves over 25 per cent timber loss
- • Olerai's Tego maize matures in 75 days for fresh green market
- • Crop app tells contractors expected yields, market size to cut losses
- • Factsheet of tripling eggplant fruit size for high-end market
- • Smart tool tells farmers cows are ripe for artificial insemination
- • Coffee farmers to earn more after deliveries to Euopean exporter
- • Smart system counts eggs, detects diseases for poultry farmers
- • Agripreneur turns waste plastic bottles into aerial vegetable farm
- • Coast neem oil farmer offers residents elephantiasis remedy
- • Neem oil farmer offering elephantiasis remedy to Coast residents
- • Detergents give 100 per cent hydroponic fodder and kill germs
- • Ripe tomatoes sold for 30 days
- • Kerosene incubator helps farmer crack poultry agribusiness
- • Coast farmers cut irrigation costs with water storing crystals
- • Opinion: Finding the sweet spot of Africa’s agriculture
- • Machine helps one farmer shell eight 90kg sacks of maize a day
- • Farmers use weeds to tame crop destroying moles
- ► August (20)
- • Juice machine helps farmers earn six times more from sugarcane
- • Prisons officer helps farmers set up integrated backyard fishponds
- • Farmers feeding fish kitchen food risk losing stock, expert warns
- • OLX SMS links potato farmers to buyers
- • Farmer makes Sh16,000 from one pig with commercial feeds
- • Planting plan and market contact helping farmer in selling produce
- • Wood smoke smell helps farmers stock bees
- • Housing bees maximises land usage for farmer
- • Farmer helping others get clean high yielding sweet potatoes
- • Simple, cheap aflatoxin testing kit launched for farmers
- • New disease tolerant tomato can earn over Sh2million in 75 days
- • Quick maturing aerial yams for urbanites
- • Factsheet on achieving 100 per cent onion germination
- • Excess urea best for leaves, not fruits
- • Yellow capsicum short supply shoots prices up
- • Group earns from ulcer treating banana peels powder
- • White fly trapping gel halves vegetable pesticide use
- • Sivan F1 is the four-months million shillings onion for small-holders
- • Town garbage feeds farmer's pigs
- • Why first 36 hours are critical for orphaned calf in dairy production
- ► July (24)
- • Charcoal and egg mix treats feed poisoned rabbits fast
- • Two months maturing beans released for Western Kenya
- • One Machakos 'Garden of Eden' tree bears multiple fruit varieties
- • Kisii University scholar moving to rabbit urine harvesting for profits
- • Farmer fetches thousands from humble doves and pigeons
- • Farmer finds immersion effective in poultry parasite control
- • Beef charolais calf earns more than dairy cattle per year
- • Two chickens and two rabbits multiply 50 fish weight in six months
- • Integrated poultry rearing secures farmer's chicken from predators
- • Centrifugal extractor saves farmers 30 per cent honey lost to past ways
- • Crossbreeding broilers with layers cuts feeds and triples eggs
- • Group earns six times from banana value addition
- • High protein double yielding napier grass released
- • Chamber halves banana ripening days, doubles group earning
- • Parachute farming saves urbanites over Sh1,000 vegetables expenses
- • Sigona multistoried poultry farm attracting international visitors
- • Cow mattress can earn dairy farmers over Sh3,000, cut mastitis
- • New hybrid watermelon can earn over Sh2.5 million in three months
- • Multipurpose tractor helps farmers harvest potatoes without cuts
- • Weeds tell farmers the kind of soils they have the and crop to grow on them
- • Arid farmer moves to exotic bulls for fun and money
- • Shrub feeds can increase livestock nutrition by 60 per cent
- • Cheap walking multipurpose tractor for small-scale farmers
- • Polythene lining keeps ducks home for Machakos farmer
- ► June (37)
- • Once jobless youths earn Sh4 million monthly from mushrooms
- • Once jobless youths earn Sh4 million monthly from mushrooms
- • Opinion: African Heroes and the Superpowers of Agriculture
- • Exotic cow multiplies milk yield for farmer
- • One dairy cow lights up farmer's home
- • International market paying ten times more for purple tea
- • Free-range dairy goat earns farmer over Sh90,000 a year
- • Tank fish farmers can purify water for reuse with Sh75,500 kit
- • Death of farmer's chicks gives birth to plastic cage
- • Sh57,000 posho mill helps agripreneur double earnings
- • How farmer improves Friesian milk quality
- • Value addition earns double cash for groundnuts trader
- • Rearing over 80 chickens on a two by two metres space
- • Climbing beans can earn double yields for farmers
- • Common weed controls crop pests
- • The administrator turning his goose hobby into farming venture
- • Amaranth: from weed to wonder crop
- • How grafting can help citrus farmers beat EU chemical regulations
- • New Amiran Kenya and Yara fertiliser triples vegetable harvests
- • Part-time Kajiado farmer earns Sh15,000 from 'free' national park land
- • Why farmer looked for market before growing cucumber
- • 'Accident' tomato growing saves farmer who lost Sh300,00 in poultry
- • Amiran Kenya offering free crop disease clinic to farmers
- • Crossbreeding triples farmer's milk yield
- • A Nairobi processing firm offering hot chilli market
- • Purple passion fruit market pops up in Kiambu County
- • Sh60 can save farmers up to 80 per cent harvest loss
- • Farmer adopts irregular planting to spread cash-flow period
- • Artificial seed germination keeps off deadly tomato diseases
- • "Baba Yao' painting saves banana farmer against night guarding for theft
- • Farmers harvest double from orange-fleshed sweet potato varieties
- • Farmers harvest double from orange-fleshed sweet potato varieties
- • Curing increases sweetpotato shelf-life from seven days to seven months
- • New tomato hybrid may cut harvest losses by 31 per cent
- • How resilience is paying fish farmer after collapse of group
- • Equitel offering up to Sh3million loans to farmers
- • Ex-Egerton University students turning farming to jobs
- ► May (58)
- • Growing Carmen cucumber can earn over Sh200,000 in four months
- • Benefits of seine nets in fish pond cropping
- • How two pigs can give you close to Sh1 million in one Year
- • Yellow capsicum profitable as its supply remains low
- • Poisoning invasive wildlife may be counter-productive to farmers
- • Factsheet on bixa farming
- • Why you need drip irrigation for higher profits
- • This is how to grow and earn millions with groundnuts
- • Insects to supplement proteins in animal feed
- • Zero Fly storage bags to reduce post harvest loses by 30%
- • Serving composite tea to crops increases foliage harvest
- • Soil testing key in crop bag planting
- • Benefits of growing crops in bags
- • Tobacco farmers in Kenya to earn up to 4 times in export market
- • Factsheet on grafting crops
- • Accurate pregnancy testing kit may soon be in Kenya
- • Bell pepper farmers to make Sh1.3m per acre in 75days with a new variety
- • Dhania may help slice farm costs by 'seducing' pest eaters
- • High demand for Rhode Hay seeds in Kenya
- • Farmer milking Sh54,000 monthly from cross-bred cows
- • Pawpaw farmers to earn Sh3.2 million with a new hybrid variety
- • Poultry farmers increase earnings, tame aflatoxin with low cost organic supplement
- • Hybrid watermelon can earn farmers Sh2 million in two months
- • Samsung digital villages to benefit Rural farmers in Kenya
- • Rare fruit fetches KSh2,300 per Kg in Kenya
- • Kenya approves GM maize
- • Purple tea to end farmers' agony as black tea prices fall
- • UKaid providing low-interest loans to Kenyan farmers
- • Nakuru hay farmer commended by UK
- • Pawpaw gives 40 fruits per tree
- • Export Council's free product development course to give Kenyan farmers tips on how to penetrate the rich export market
- • Precision planters help farmers curb seed, time loss
- • A near free soil sampling initiative to help Kenyan farmers grow right crops
- • Here are the agribusiness acceleration opportunities farmers in East Africa should look forward to in 2016
- • Eldoret-based processor teams up with farmers to export tonnes of chilli
- • Bulb-like camera could help arrest crop, animal thieves
- • Soil testing services closer to farmers as Soil Cares drives around counties
- • KSh1 information service links Kenyan farmers with discounts on implements
- • KEPHIS and county governments bring export eduction to farmers' doorsteps
- • New products to tame lethal necrosis set for market
- • Kinango residents at a good place even after marauding rains
- • Kenya to adopt paperless clearing system in fresh produce market, bringing efficiency and foreign currency faster
- • Insurance the only rescue for farmers as El Nino rains wreak havoc on farmlands
- • Streak tolerant banana varieties to shield farmers from annual losses
- • Affordable solar-powered water pumps could be the key to farming success in Kenya
- • A herb garden in your backyard can bring you extra revenue
- • Farmers bank on precision farming for increased food production
- • All attention has turned to coffee as the export market begs for rejuvenation
- • Ugandan pigs gain 0.5 kgs daily from locally made feeds
- • Sweet Potato vines silage making as Pig feeds
- • Dreaded desert locusts tame heart diseases- Scientists
- • Farmer field schools point farmers to right farming tools
- • Project lifts Central Kenya farmers through mixed farming
- • Mushroom group points farmers to international market
- • One Tamarillo tree earns farmer Sh2,000 yearly
- • Less than half acre 'wonder' fruit earns farmer over Sh60,000 monthly
- • Latest news
- • Disease resistant new tomato hybrid can earn Sh3 million
- ► April (165)
- • Cattle feed on poultry waste, earning poultry farmers extra money
- • Farmer vouches for apple varieties that yield fruit in one year
- • The time is ripe for Kenyan farmers to try out cheese making
- • Financier offers smallholder farmers cheap loans
- • Narok secures Sh28b investment for agriculture
- • Sh510 million deals signed to set up milling plants in Narok
- • Sh1.02b slaughterhouse to be constructed in Narok
- • Narok to get first frozen French fries plant
- • Reprieve for barley farmers as exporter steps in
- • Planned milk plants promise brighter days for Narok farmers
- • Tomato paste plant worth Sh1.02b in the offing
- • Duo arrested switching fertiliser bags
- • Dagoretti farmers try out 2-wheel tractors
- • Sugar milling factory coming up in Narok
- • SAME tractors enter Massey Ferguson’s turf
- • How to start off in bamboo farming
- • Adults snatch rabbit keeping ‘hobby’ away from their children, making easy and fast returns
- • Kenyan farmer film moves world leaders to tears
- • Model bamboo center breeding millionaires
- • Central Kenya avocado farmers enjoying export opportunity
- • Eldoret dairy school brings hands on training to farmers
- • Naivasha farm harvests 3 million litres of El Nino water
- • Uganda President Museveni gets his grape seedlings from Meru
- • UK charity to buy cows for poor African farmers
- • USAID predicts great year-end for pastoralists
- • Nairobi fresh produce expo postponed
- • Growing Cayenne pepper worth KSh1m in Murang'a
- • Crops of 2016: What to plant in January
- • Crops of 2016-What to plant in February
- • Crops of 2016: What to plant in March
- • Kakamega farmers to get free cows
- • Crops of 2016: What to plant in May
- • Tithonia flowers used to make home-made pesticides in Kitale
- • Kitale farmers earning double profits from Napier grass farming
- • Motorcycle that pumps water enters Kenyan market
- • The ABCs of napier grass cultivation and management
- • Kenyan farmer imports world's best grape cuttings
- • Eldoret artist earns Sh2000 a day selling scarecrows to farmers
- • Farmer's sukuma wiki variety grows for 10 years
- • Limuru farmer hacks vegetable market with Chinese cabbages
- • Superior Kenyan bean variety increases yields by 50 per cent
- • Makerere University unveils tractor made of wood
- • Strange epidemic disease identified in Northern Kenya
- • Kienyeji chicken firm with ready market looking for trainees
- • Tea farmers in for a tough year as fertiliser subsidies dropped..
- • Kenyan mangoes have a ripe market in Japan
- • This powder prevents contaminated water from seeping out of pit latrines
- • Mint used to control fleas, mosquitoes
- • Onions from Tanzania killing the business for Kenyan farmers
- • Indian cotton seed maker eyeing Kenyan market
- • Aloe Vera prices at an all-time high
- • How to grow mushrooms for export
- • Sandalwood should be commercialised
- • EU market opens up for Kenyan fish farmers
- • How to grow the endangered sandalwood
- • Cheap maize sheller saves farmers tens of hours
- • Muhoroni closes after machines crash
- • GMO maize promises to triple farmers' yields
- • How much it costs to drill a borehole
- • Kenya can export more than 30,000 tonnes of gum
- • Timber sellers contracting farmers to grow trees
- • Farmers sell maize worth Sh2.5b to NCPB
- • FAO: Combining livestock and crop farming triples earnings
- • All Weetabix wheat to come from British farmers
- • Nakuru enters farming MoU with China
- • Local fish labs to boost Kenya exports
- • Lack of quality planting material to blame for poor crop yields
- • Kenya at a good place to bridge France's dire need of pineapples
- • Strange animal killing livestock in Eldoret
- • Kenyan wheat farmers urge government to increase import tax
- • Meru farmer selling mature mango plants in small pots
- • KSh700 insemination for Nyandarua farmers as vets get motorbikes
- • Farmers urged to embrace tissue culture bananas
- • Subukia farmers trashing tomatoes
- • Narok milk plant to start making chocolate bars in September
- • High-yielding grafted apples for low rainfall regions
- • UK researchers against free solar kits for Kenyans
- • New tomato variety resists nematodes
- • Plastic mulch drastically reduces production costs
- • Groundnut farmers urged to adopt 4x yielding varieties
- • Demand spikes as bitter melon linked to cancer cure
- • Two fungi to end fodder scarcity during drought
- • Gadget converts any space into cold room
- • Mango insecticide costs slashed by half
- • Purple antiseptic protects chicks from hawks
- • Kenya gets billions for irrigation
- • Nakuru County to vaccinate 400,000 animals
- • Super fungicide set for Kenya shelves
- • Nyandarua Sh700 insemination plan on despite protest
- • Passsion fruit shortage hits soft drink companies
- • Narok farmers urged to store wheat until prices rise
- • Enterprising Kenyan leader spearheads snail farming
- • New potato varieties key to EU market
- • Flower farmers smiling as Valentine's Day approaches
- • Rift Valley Fever now has a working vaccine
- • Liquid paraffin helps day-old chick on first feeding
- • Bees keeping errant elephants away from farm fields
- • Healthy eaters craving mushrooms
- • Farmer tapping money from the flourishing strawberry market
- • Mushroom firm looking for outgrowers
- • Charolais can earn farmers over Sh0.5 million in two years
- • KALRO unveils super-yield indigenous chicken
- • Kitchen Soko linking farmers to Nairobi consumers
- • New KALRO poultry vaccines don’t need fridges to store
- • Nakuru farmer increases milk production by letting cows watch TV
- • High-end hotels in Kenya create best turkey market
- • Blight resistant GMO potato being tested for Kenya market
- • Curing extends potato shelf-life to 40 days
- • Ugandan farmers petition UNDP to cut ties with Bidco
- • Farmers make higher sales through WhatsApp
- • EU to support banana factory for Taita-Taveta
- • Golden ‘weed’ has multiple benefits
- • Groundnuts earn Mpeketoni farmer Sh320,000 in three months
- • Fertiliser distribution hampered by poor roads
- • Rivals dismiss calls on UNDP to cut Uganda Bidco ties
- • KALRO selling Mucinya' sweet potato that creeps 4X faster
- • High demand for Kenya's passion fruit in Belgium
- • An affordable insurance cover for Smallholder farmers in Kenya
- • How to identify genuine maize seeds this planting season
- • Converting female to male tilapia fish is more productive
- • Storage bag secures cereals against pests
- • Farmers unity defeats non-paying sugar millers
- • How to turn farm trash to treasure
- • A common weed that prevents coccidiosis in chicken
- • Fruits drying raises Kenyan farmers' earnings by 10 times
- • Bicycle pump for small-scale use available
- • Agri-OLX platform point Kenyan farmers to a broader market
- • Worms churn garbage to 'gold' for farmers
- • Machakos fruit factory to benefit farmers
- • Suitable maize varieties for your region this planting season
- • Mbegu Choice helping farmers get high value seed online
- • Super fertilizer that add 10 kilos to banana yields
- • Nakuru farmers earning Sh200,000 a month from basil exports
- • How farmer earned Sh100,000 from guinea fowl pets
- • Two cows' dung saves farmer thousands of shillings in cooking gas
- • Honey reduce heat stress, increase quality of eggs in poultry
- • What to consider while buying one day old chicks
- • Weather SMS to help over 300,000 farmers in planning
- • Testing eggs for fertility boosts hatching
- • Farmer uses chili in chasing out chicken predators
- • Urine-wood ash mix is farmer's cost-free pesticide
- • Farmer cracks macadamia nut yields with grafting
- • Rice farmers in Kenya to double yields with SRI technique
- • Dry region farmers can harvest thousands of shilling with silk worms
- • Europe avocado demand to benefit Kenyans until August
- • Farmer earning handsomely from strawberry leaves
- • Why soil testing is necessary for high productivity
- • Butterflies can earn farmers Sh70,000 monthly
- • A spinach variety that yield 48kg per tree now in Kenya
- • Ducks hatching for guinea fowl more profitable
- • High starch-yielding Katuni cassava earns more for arid farmers
- • Zero energy cooling chamber extends fruits and vegetables shelf-life
- • Why broiler-indigenous hybrid is more profitable
- • Proper hygiene safest way of increasing milk shelf-life
- • Keenly observe heat signs for successful cow fertilisation
- • Hormonal lift and good feed cure cow 'infertility'
- • Mulled mustard seed mutes egg eating problem
- • Middle East market craves for more Kenyan mangoes
- • Small-holder dairy goat farmers to feed Djibouti market
- • High yielding, cheap watermelon enters market
- • High demand for tomatoes in Mombasa as a kilo fetch Sh130
- • How to achieve high yields in carrots
- • Water harvesting turns peasant farmer into regional supplier
- • Meru County leads in cultivation of thorny melon fruit
- • Beekeeping venture shields farmer from weather vagaries
- ► March (4)
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- • Commercial farm turns Ugandans into agropreneurs
- • Kenyan middle class drives fresh juice processing
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- • As El Nino swallows up farmers' harvests, those who took insurance have nothing to worry about
- • Insemination services near Kenyan farmers as State sets up new freezing facilities
- • Smallholder farmers dying poor because they lack enough market information
- • Pesticide residues in vegetables will be the end of Sukuma-loving Kenyans
- • Nutritionist proves that Amaranth weed has bundles of money hidden in its grain
- • New plan allows investors to buy herds of cows and wait to milk profits
- • Eating termites is healthy and there are people who farm them for ready markets
- • Clever farmers will be smiling all the way to their banks after the El Nino rains
- • Farming on balconies the solution to Kenya's rising food prices
- • Farming venture in Naivasha proves that Kenya can produce Africa's finest wine
- • Kenyan home buyers now want houses with cultivation spaces
- • Fodder shrubs a cheaper alternative to commercial feeds
- • Eldoret children's home supplies the country with fresh cheese and milk
- • Proper handling of produce to save Africa Sh4bn every year
- • Farmers working to save last crop before El nino rain falls
- • Distribution revolution promises to make food prices manageable
- • Kenyan researchers set up digital information repository, but more effort is needed to fetch results
- • KARLO SETS UP DIGITAL INFORMATION REPOSITORY, BUT A LOT MORE EFFORT IS NEEDED TO FETCH RESULTS
- • Weeds tell farmers the kind of soils they have and crops to grow on them
- • Seed selection tool for Kenyan farmers goes live
- • NYS urban farming projects provoke the youth to think outside the box
- • Honey market opens up for Kenyan farmers
- ► September (3)
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- ► July (27)
- • New platform that allows farmers to use Grains as collateral for loans launched
- • Kenya steps up to UN year of soils
- • Sorghum value addition opens new frontiers for Kenyan farmers
- • Livestock association gives sector face lift
- • Farmers hopeful as scientists close to finding maize lethal necrosis resistant seeds
- • A farmers' group give agricultural skills to pupils to contain food insecurity
- • A farmers' group give agricultural skills to pupils to contain food insecurity
- • Youth invents low cost farm machines
- • Back in the Day, Tilling Land Was a Communal Activity Characterised by Song and Dance
- • Back in the day, tilling land was a communal activity characterised by song and dance
- • Agriculture center creates millionaires through free trainings
- • Agriculture center creates millionaires through free trainings
- • The Cape Gooseberry is a 'wild' fruit that could possibly be used to treat cancer
- • Purple tea earns Meru farm 10x more in exports
- • Embu cooperative group turns farmers into net suppliers
- • Retired army general harvests millions from trees
- • Eldoret farmer creates buzz in market with stingless bees
- • Urban farmer dumps investing in real estate for pig rearing
- • Village libraries quench farmer thirst for information in Vihiga
- • Indigenous vegetables promise farmers nutrients and profits in cash
- • Bomet farmer champions low cost zero grazing model
- • Bomet farmer champions low cost zero grazing model
- • Online tool enables farmers predict weather patterns
- • Mumias cane farmers find solace in Soya and Maize
- • Maize farming Simplified
- • Family finds fortunes farming together
- • Pig farmers cautioned against use of Kitchen leftover feeeds
- ► June (25)
- • Scientists breed goat that survives climate change
- • Researchers develop M-Pig app to curb inadequate extension officers
- • Citrus farmers eye juicy future with pest control project
- • Bamboo farmers' patience pays off as markets open up
- • KTDA launch cashless system to help farmers keep thieves at bay
- • Ruiru’s Facebook farmer reaps tomato millions
- • ABC's of Finger millet
- • ABC's of Finger millet
- • Online tool helps rabbit farmers track progress remotely
- • Company makes cheaper farmer financing a reality
- • Company makes cheaper farmer financing a reality
- • Telephone farmers find solace in Agronomist
- • Firm links dairy breeders to ready market using E-marketing
- • Karen farmer champions urban organic farming with soilless medium
- • The man who brought Africa's fastest maturing tomato to Kenya
- • Organic Company turns trash to farm treasure, healing soils
- • Company targets smallholder farmers with unique greenhouses
- • How post election violence frustrations birthed dairy empire
- • IT consultant finds fortune in rare birds
- • Online seed tool maps varieties for all 47 counties
- • Sweet potato becomes food of choice in arid areas
- • 13 new wasp species to bolster war on pests
- • Ugandan Coffee farmers acquire new wilt resistant varieties
- • IT innovation connects farmers to unsecure loans
- • Ugandan farmers embrace automated irrigation system
- ► May (12)
- • Science teacher’s innovation that uses compost heat to boil water takes pressure off forests
- • Youth find financial lifeline in coffee nurseries
- • Farmers make silage from sweet potato vines
- • Trans Nzoia farmer group captures international maize markets
- • Sorghum project gives Western women financial might
- • Home made greenhouses fight poverty in Bungoma
- • Dorper sheep resuscitates sheep rearing in Kenya
- • App cuts time and cost of connecting farmers
- • Understanding Cassava brown streak
- • The engineer who found fortunes in coffee and pigs
- • Flower companies embrace integrated pest management
- • The former teacher leading a banana revolution in Vihiga
- ► April (14)
- • Farmers double yields with fish poultry technology
- • Climate change lab points Kenya to local solutions
- • Farmers crack regional markets with groundnuts
- • Superior spraying tech tames water loss
- • Researchers set sight on superior pig breeds
- • Attack by two parasites reduces cattle death study
- • Village cooperatives redefine value addition
- • Uganda government boost coffee production with free seeds
- • Taita farmers taste aloe vera’s millions
- • Polytechnic club entices youth to farming
- • Fake seeds choke farms and earnings
- • Volatile markets, rebels take toll on Uganda cotton
- • Africa harmonizes policies to boost fish trade
- • Apple fruit farming
- ► March (17)
- • Farmer finds millions in courgettes
- • Organic vegetable fertilizer doubles yields
- • Africa’s premier water fund to fight soil erosion
- • Nandi youth group grows money in trees
- • Farmers, fast food joints find fortunes in Soko shambani
- • Fish pond waste water increases milk yields by three litres
- • Orphaned crops find homes in E. Africa women farmers
- • Informal food markets more hygienic than supermarkets,study
- • Kenya welcomes bean varieties that reduces cooking time
- • Elite banana variety tames Uganda’s imports
- • Farmers boost milk yields with do it yourself model
- • Causes of sudden drop in egg production
- • Army general turns 12 acre land into model farm
- • Project seeks to harmonize Africa’s fish trade
- • Farmers fight urban hunger with bucket ponds
- • Researchers target beer companies with sweet sorghum
- • Scientists step up war on pig flu
- ► February (23)
- • Youth take pressure off forests with unique stoves
- • Kakamega farmers triple yields with interest free loans
- • Potato farmers find fortunes in value addition firm
- • Mumias farmers replace cane with soya beans
- • Weather based insurance key to food sufficiency, report
- • Dairy farmers increase yields 5x conserving fodder
- • Telecentre points Tanzania farmers to Kenyan buyers
- • Ugandan farmers question cattle measuring tape
- • Purple tea offers farmers mixed bag of fortunes
- • Pig and bicycle opens up maize business for couple
- • 100k Kiambu families to own farm shops
- • Pig association assist farmers double pork prices
- • The powder that increases bird weight by 50 per cent
- • Former accountant builds multi million fish hatchery
- • Vegetable project transforms farms to cash cows
- • Youth eyes Russian market with oyster mushroom
- • Floating fish pellets quickens maturity
- • Pig supplement increases weight, fight worms
- • Fish feeding by Response
- • Residents find reprieve in cheap duck oil
- • How SACCO rose from pulping to exporting processed coffee
- • Motorized pump reduces spraying time four fold
- • Kenya coffee auction
- ► January (48)
- • Electric motorbikes save Nyakach fish from rot
- • Vanguard farmer makes a killing with chick nursery
- • Rabbit meat and urine offer farmers profitable alternatives
- • Farmers dictate market prices with mobile phones
- • Best practices in fish rearing
- • Youth restores sanity in Uganda’s pig farming
- • Climate change threatens livelihoods of fish producers
- • Fertilizer free farm becomes Nyanza’s food basket
- • Uganda targets triple yields with coffee farming manual
- • Camel milk, goat breeding lift Borana’s fortunes
- • Electronic fishing rigs increase harvest 10 fold
- • Broiler farm to bridge poultry products shortfall
- • How a humble vegetable crop changed Gilgil farmers’ lives
- • Farmer saves seeds in gourds creating bank
- • New soya bean varieties boost farmers and country’s income
- • Garlic farming and marketing
- • Use of water from public sources
- • Smallholder farmers reap double growing crops with trees
- • Traders’ pricing sound the death knell for farmers’ income
- • SACCOs behind Nyeri’s farming boom
- • Former pilot finds millions in birds
- • Scientists mull insect based animal feeds to tame cost
- • Leather city a boost to Kenya’s export earnings
- • Pokot women target export market with unique honey
- • Africa bets on rice union to boost production
- • Communal grazing scheme resuscitates camel rearing
- • Community cinema eases pressure on Kakamega forest
- • Bio fertilizer doubles cane yields
- • The horticultural empire that city engineer built
- • Uganda records quail farming boom despite Kenya’s fiasco
- • Farmers scramble for wonder sheep as country resuscitates rearing
- • Butternut squash cultivation
- • Rural SACCO transforms to a milk powerhouse
- • Red Maasai sheep insulate farmers from weather changes
- • Razed farms take a toll on crop yields
- • Vet saves arid area cows with low cost feed preservation
- • The crops of 2015
- • Growing tomatoes organically
- • Legumes boost Nyeri’s soil fertility and flower production
- • Farmers milk fortunes adding value to soyabeans
- • Garissa farmers get smart with new age crops
- • Tomato growing hobby rises to a multimillion empire
- • Forest project create incomes and jobs for Western farmers
- • Green grams sprout in arid Makueni
- • Farmers return to fruit farming on attractive market pay
- • Goat farming points HIV positive farmer to fortunes
- • Packaging law becomes traders’ hot potato
- • Farmers breathe life to tender crops with polythene covers
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- ► December (17)
- • Farmers award fetes Kenya’s agricultural finest
- • Tomatoes and capsicum lift youths’ fortunes
- • Flower farm shines at farmers awards
- • Farmers correct climate change mess organic farming
- • Companies step up war on horticultural pests with new innovation
- • Market for organic produce
- • Kenya bets on high value sorghum to boost yields
- • Low cost pest arsenals rescue Kenya flowers
- • The class four dropout who found money and fame in soil
- • Former civil servant turns farm into award winning food basket
- • Spider with appetite for mosquitoes guides war on malaria
- • Organic food certification standards Uganda
- • Coffee finds its mojo in modern pest control arsenals
- • The rosy tale of Mugo Flower Farm
- • Online agribusiness directory brings markets closer to Ugandan farmers
- • Farmers build fish ponds with mud cutting construction costs
- • Kenya’s ‘hidden hunger’ situation chronic, study
- ► November (45)
- • Uganda mulls fingerprint tracking to tackle fake seeds
- • How Aspirin reduces pest attacks in crops
- • Maize shelling takes toll on farmers' earnings
- • Black plastic film tames water evaporation in arid farms
- • Farmers bear brunt of accessing markets solo
- • Kenya looses on Bt cotton fortunes as peers rake millions
- • SMEs turn to agriculture to grow profits
- • Dairy farmers milk fortunes with new finance model
- • International markets open up to Kenya’s cosmetic leaves
- • Childhood curiosity births soil testing lab
- • Nut farmers crack profits as local demand soars
- • Environmental pollution reduces Kenyans life expectancy
- • Flower farmers lose millions to sap sucking insect
- • Mwingi farmers preserve future with fodder technology
- • Farmers tame post harvest losses with homemade innovations
- • Kenya launches aflatoxin lab to tame spread
- • Nestle rekindles coffee’s glory with hybrid variety
- • Health conscious Kenyans drive cultivation of neglected thorny fruit
- • Prison warder cross breeds tomato with Sodom Apple
- • Soil erosion wipes nutrients and incomes
- • Watermelons flourish in the middle of barren farms
- • Trap crops keep pests at bay
- • Farmers increase earnings extracting milk from soyabeans
- • Engineer builds horticulture empire in city
- • Superior sheep breed rekindles sheep rearing
- • Vanguard women farmers find money in trash
- • Diminishing arable land paves way for rabbit farming
- • Dairy farmers conserve environment with biogas digesters
- • Kenya looses on leather fortunes as Ethiopia rakes billions
- • Farmers tackle climate change with smart villages
- • Western Kenya to lead Kenya’s palm oil revolution
- • Bitter times for fruit farmers as new disease strikes
- • Scientists pitch for herbal medicine to cure livestock diseases
- • Low cost carbon charcoal takes pressure off Kenya forests
- • Irrigation brings barren farms to life
- • School rescues pastoralists’ livestock from death
- • Resource center embraces tech to transform farming
- • Highly Commended CNN Multichoice African Journalism Awards
- • Tech tames aflatoxins for shillings
- • Enterprising farmer boosts region’s yields with crop rotation
- • Pastoralists count on radio to adapt to changing weather
- • Farmers turn to fruit farming for juicy returns
- • AGRA scales food security resolve with new programme
- • Highland arrowroots return dignity to Central Kenya’s soil
- • Global horticultural bonanza lifts Kenya’s earnings
- ► October (36)
- • Uganda horticultural exports survive EU ban
- • Company tames flower loss by shortening supply chain
- • Tomato turns Western students into entrepreneurs
- • Goats help farmers fight climate change
- • Rice farmers intercrop to insulate themselves from weather changes
- • Failed rains spark Kenya’s water wars
- • Daadab refugees find reprieve in pawpaw, bean cultivation
- • Arid land farmers invest in timely planting to fight climate change
- • Science graduate builds milk powerhouse in the desert
- • Quality seeds herald sorghum boom in Western Kenya
- • Ugandan favourable packaging policy entices Kenya carrot farmers
- • Dairy farmers milk millions with cooperative
- • Smartphone boom inspires life saving livestock apps
- • The terracing secret that has showered Machakos farms
- • KARI invests in women to boost livestock farming
- • KARI scientists embrace tech to boost research
- • Meteoric demand for fish drives aquaculture farming
- • Green revolution feeds continent, tames climate change
- • Scientists use birds to understand weather changes
- • Superior kale varieties boost harvests, fight diseases
- • North Eastern livestock market doubles households’ incomes
- • 100 acre dairy farm milks income in dry land
- • Farmer courts bees to beat climate change
- • Wheat farmers lose yields to poor techniques
- • Sugarcane farmers use beetles to tame pest
- • Tax regime puts brakes on rising sorghum sector
- • Soil book captures Africa’s projects to tame infertility
- • How an idea bloomed into a flower enterprise
- • Smallholder irrigation drives innovation and yields
- • Communal grazing model tames land conflict
- • Eucalyptus tree becomes farmers’ silver bullet against climate change
- • Scientists breed nutritionally rich yam bean
- • Farmers stem food waste with low cost drying technologies
- • New water harvesting project showers Marsabit farms
- • Organisation connects pastoralists to cash on delivery markets
- • Farmers count more yields with localised soil fertility practices
- ► September (34)
- • Virtual warehouse allows farmers timely access to inputs
- • Milk container spares farmers milk spillage woes
- • Backyard fish farms increase household incomes
- • New maize variety triples yields,withstands harsh weather
- • Farm loan pegs interest on soil conservation
- • Farmer peer groups drive faster technology adoption
- • Private companies package fertilizers to tame deficit
- • East Africa’s dilemma in feeding billions as climate change crisis looms
- • Farmers beat high seed prices with mini packs
- • Value addition efforts inspire farming for export
- • Project boosts farming best practices, triples earnings
- • Sunflower boosts milk yields and income amid feed shortage
- • Dairy loan insures cows, increases income
- • Pigeon pea becomes farmers' silver bullet as rains fail
- • Scientists use wild tomatoes to breed superior varieties
- • Hotels demand for tomatoes more than triple young farmers’ incomes
- • Farmers replenish soils, produce own oils with Moringa project
- • Radio show turns barren lands into arrowroot oases
- • New crop protection chemical tames voracious flower pests
- • Profit and loss sharing credit model entices youth to farming
- • Pastoralists dump cows for gum tree as demand soars
- • Crop rotation becomes Bungoma farmer’s silver bullet
- • Mathare families fly with rooftop farming
- • Scientists target silkworms to contain Malaria
- • Enterprising youth hatches fortunes with chicken sourcing business
- • Three layered bags stem post harvest losses, aflatoxin
- • Fertilizer loan to fastrack smallholder farmers’ crop production
- • Mobile tool connects farmers to timely market information
- • Greenhouse farmers' ignorance lead to yield loss (2)
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- • Molasses milk booster feed offers dairy farmers cheap alternative
- • Fund targets climate mitigation innovators
- • Farmer extracts millions from bee venom
- • Academy points farmers to ripe markets
- ► August (47)
- • Bees create sweet times for semi arid area farmer
- • Baobab among first orphaned crops to undergo genetic mapping
- • Tobacco to bamboo project heralds low cost housing
- • Pact gives Kenyan flower exporters easy US access
- • Fighting aflatoxins an orphan at a time
- • Farmers speed sweet potato planting with multiplication system
- • Farmer field schools assist farmers modernize tea production
- • Farmers count more yields without fertilizers
- • Markets open up to Samburu camel milk
- • Fish drying racks stem stock loss, doubling prices
- • Drought resistant maize seed rekindles hope in Machakos
- • Tomato plant sale lifts school’s fortunes
- • Campaign transforms war zones into kitchen gardens
- • Export requirements for horticultural produce
- • Artificial insemination in chicken boosts egg fertilization
- • African farmers fix sick soils planting legumes
- • Enterprising farmer cuts a niche in banana flour
- • ‘Queen of urban farming' earns from Nairobi’s plastic eyesore
- • Farmer goes tobacco way to beat pea pests
- • Potato farmers fly with cluster model
- • Farm grows water guzzling produce in desert
- • New wheat planting method tames weed spread
- • Women counts on fresh produce to build schools
- • Banana farmers count on unique fertilizer to increase bunch size, shelf life
- • Fertilizer plant to produce 300,000tonnes yearly lowering cost
- • Maize like, poison free sorghum rekindles cultivation
- • Uganda pig farming booms as pork consumption leads in Africa
- • Farmers return to nuts as cure boosts crop’s immunity
- • Export farmers go green to fast track accreditation
- • The multimillion shilling tree empire that is the envy of Yatta
- • Baringo farmers tame harsh weather with Aloe Vera
- • Oyster mushroom cultivation
- • Kenya’s animal feed industry chokes on exorbitant pricing
- • International markets open up to semi arid Kenya’s bio products
- • High value fruits birth saving culture among Ukambani farmers
- • Slum dwellers earn from livestock waste briquettes
- • Model scales finger millet production in Uganda
- • Western farmers eye increased yields with training
- • ‘Half moon’ contours turn Isiolo deserts into agricultural oases
- • Strawberries and fish earn farmers Sh3million yearly
- • War victims find fortunes in cassava flour
- • Tanzania farmers bet on farm project to double income and yields
- • Kenyan flower industry warms up to measuring carbon footprint
- • New fertilizer application technology triples yields
- • Mucuna bean fertilizes degraded soils
- • The multimillion farming empire the county chief built
- • Farmer group turns sunflower into a Sh80million yearly earning
- ► July (27)
- • Farmers scale up cassava preservation to remove poisonous cyanide
- • Private companies package own fertilizers to stem shortfall
- • Horticultural farmers double yields with crop energizer
- • County counts on reduced AI costs to bolster milk production
- • Sorghum sourced instant noodles target modern customers
- • New tomato variety battles wilt disease
- • Climate refugees, Kenya’s ticking time bomb
- • Livestock financing rises on growth of industry
- • Livestock breeders’ bonanza inspires farmer into dairying
- • Kenya flower industry on a boom trajectory
- • Palm tree beehives earn farmer Sh3million yearly
- • Farmers count on video to boost yields
- • Blind farmer leads agriculture revolution in Meru
- • Elephants tame Sodom apple spread, saving livestock
- • Project to tame malnutrition through mobile phones
- • Farmer earns from rearing red worms for organic manure
- • Tired soils put future food availability at risk
- • Organic vegetables over 6 times more nutritious, study
- • Conservation agriculture, intercropping breathes new life to Western soils
- • Solution turns sawdust into pig feed
- • Green energy assists rural farmers stem post harvest losses
- • Solar powered mini silos tames grain loss
- • Micro chipped ear tags redefine livestock branding
- • Project gives farmers unlimited access to patent free seeds
- • Rearing chicken and cows triple Kisii farmer’s earnings
- • E. African youth turn hay making into thriving ventures
- • Electronic tracking chip stems cattle rustling
- ► June (35)
- • Farmbizafrica wins in Africa Media Awards
- • Falling water tables frustrate Central Kenya farmers
- • Tea tree earns farmers fortunes
- • KARI develops fast maturing horticultural produce
- • Radio assists disabled farmers to increase yields
- • Dairy, courgette farming earns farmers sh400, 000 monthly
- • Kenyan women replace men as coffee champions
- • ABC’s of carrot cultivation
- • Tomato farmers count losses as European pest strikes
- • Government to reach 7million farmers with e extension
- • Vitamin A rich bananas to the rescue of E. Africans
- • Bio bees triple yields in greenhouses
- • Global leaders discuss environment,farmers in Nairobi
- • Organic farming provides alternatives to failed farm techniques
- • Enterprising youth earns from sugarcane juice
- • Rare birds earn farmer Sh15million yearly
- • Sensors help farmers monitor greenhouses while miles away
- • Farmers trained to talk to their cows
- • Scientists develop biopesticide to tame fruit fly
- • Kisii farmers triple earnings making banana queen cakes
- • Agrochemical companies turn to farmers to fight counterfeits
- • Subukia farmers fight pests with neem leaves
- • Electrician generates light from food waste
- • Data system to tame animal to human diseases
- • Kericho pumpkins find market in EU
- • Kenyan budget targets new age farming with Sh59billion
- • Chilli variety takes the weep out of farmers’ barren lands
- • Farmers turn to pig breeding for quick returns
- • Scientist grows virus inside pest’s body taming its spread
- • Foot powered pumps set to monetize food growing
- • Livestock maps tally global population and distribution
- • Camera man clicks fortunes with milk
- • Kenya sets 2015 deadline for flower growers code
- • Flower breeder brings superior varieties to farmers’ doorsteps
- • Contract farming doubles income for Bomet farmers
- ► May (36)
- • Horticultural farmers fight voracious pest with sex trap
- • Farmers ditch coffee for watermelon on quick returns
- • Breeders unveil superior French bean variety
- • Heated human waste to heal Kenya’s sick soil
- • Agronomist steams soil to fight ‘the HIV of soil’
- • Kenyan mum finds market in German’s love for Kenyan tea
- • Entrepreneur creates flower market for Nubian community
- • Former casual labourer creates cassava value addition empire
- • Graduate creates low cost bioorganic fertilizer
- • Colonial furrows irrigate Yatta farms
- • Smallholder farmers bear the brunt of weather change
- • Mini tractors spur farmers into mechanized agriculture
- • Moisture meters tame aflatoxin poisoning in Uganda
- • Continental competition entices youth with Sh2million grant
- • Infertility in heifers
- • Water harvesting lifts Njoro farmer’s fortunes
- • Former teacher finds money in honey
- • Arid area farmers find fortunes in Aloe vera sap
- • Farmbiz wins continental award
- • Low cost storage facility stems food waste
- • Cooperative model connects farmers to supermarkets
- • Milk bulking emerges as farmers’ new cash cow
- • 17 year old girl behind rabbit cooperative and village bank
- • Kenya farmers premier in earning carbon credits
- • Camel project protects women pastoralists in dry spells
- • Climate change driving African bee to extinction
- • Farmers stuck with old crops despite climate threat
- • World consumes more fish than beef
- • Goat farmers milk their way to fortune with investment groups
- • Horticultural farmers go back to school to chase lost exports
- • Farmers embrace chicken pea in short rains to boost yearly yields
- • Dairy crossbreeding project targets 6000litres a cow yearly in milk yields
- • Bishop turns relief dependent households into exporters
- • Farmers fight climate change with home made interventions
- • Ugandan farmers court urine to boost soil fertility
- • Sorghum emerges as crop of choice for dryland farmers
- ► April (31)
- • Pricey timber imports spawn shortage
- • ‘Money maker pump’ showers farmers pocket
- • Nakuru’s smallholder farmer doubles yields growing crops organically
- • Kenya reclaims banana export markets after ban lift
- • Chamas move to farms saving members labour costs (2)
- • Western farmers unite to beat labour costs
- • World Bank launches manual to coordinate climate change interventions
- • Scientists close in on eliminating deadly tsetse fly
- • Eating less meat reduces climate change, study
- • Maize farmers reclaim lost yields with organic traps
- • ‘Superfly’ threatens future of millions relying on cassava
- • Online resource center quenches farmers’ thirst for information
- • Flower companies court solar energy to stem rising production cost
- • Stunt resistant grass to the rescue of East African farmers
- • Domesticating stingless bees
- • Farmers play extension officers, halving Newcastle disease and earning from it
- • FAO sounds the alarm on world’s most destructive banana disease
- • ICIPE seeks to tame bee diseases with training
- • Beekeeping project entice farmers with quick money
- • KARI launches feed making machine to preserve dwindling pasture
- • E-Pig assists farmers in pig rearing, boosting yields
- • Microfinance pours in cash and inputs for farmers
- • Layered storage bags choke pests, reducing post harvest losses
- • Maasai women farmers lead in water harvesting
- • Sex trap tames voracious moth
- • How to deal with mange disease in cattle
- • Farmer cuts niche in turkey farming
- • City families fight biting food shortage with urban gardens
- • City families fight biting food shortage with urban gardens
- • Conservation agriculture manual launched for Muslim farmers
- • Farmers embrace Rhodes grass to fight climate change
- ► March (42)
- • Researchers launch high yielding rice variety to tame import gap
- • Mobile soil testing trucks to the rescue of Ugandan farmers
- • Farmers invest in homemade livestock feeds as prices skyrocket
- • Researchers blend fertilizers to boost yields
- • Mobile soil testing kits salvage Western Kenya soils
- • Zero grazing reduces tick diseases by upto 8 times study
- • Project creates lowcost greenhouses for East African farmers
- • Researchers decry dismal uptake of purple tea
- • Smallholder farmers pay the price of poor farming policy
- • Seed grower targets farmers with Sh10 pack
- • Scientists unveil disease resistant napier to fight smut disease
- • How a dream hatched largest chicken empire in East and Central Africa
- • Milk hawking lifts farmers’ prospects and economy
- • Farmers move to organic fertilizer as soil acidity takes toll on yields
- • Dried nettles draw fanatical uptake among health conscious middle class
- • Growing vegetables and fruits tames water wastage, researchers
- • Cereal farmers grow incomes with storage wares
- • ‘Super Grow’ stems water wastage, tripling yields
- • Farmers return to coffee as global demand hit new highs
- • Farmers reap fortunes turning rock to arable land
- • Crop insurance insulate thousands from weather vagaries
- • Radio still king among Kenya’s smallholder farmers
- • Chicken farmer rides on strict hygiene to reap profits
- • Kiambu farmers access year round low cost hay
- • Company breeds low cost superior maize varieties amid shortage
- • Kenya goes after fake pesticides with new law
- • Kenya faces East for mechanized agriculture
- • Father of roadside farming earns Sh30,000 monthly supplying veggies
- • Former medical delivery man finds millions in tree tomatoes
- • Milk processing plant takes urban dwellers back to farms
- • Urban youth ditch ties for overalls and gumboots
- • The golden girls of Kenya’s agriculture
- • Kenya women farmers neglected despite driving agriculture
- • JusTea assist tea farmers increase earnings by 20 percent
- • Farmers get smart to beat changing weather patterns
- • Project breeds high value beans for canners
- • Kenyan maize finds its mojo in new labs
- • Irrigation scheme nourishes arid Loitoktok farms
- • The diabetic teacher who found fortunes in pig farming
- • Telcom firm launches information system for farmers
- • Western farmers grow incomes with Grevillea trees
- • Soya bean fixes Mumias’ tired soils
- ► February (38)
- • Uganda’s agricultural body points frustrated farmers to fortunes
- • Farmer finds niche making milk formula
- • Ugandan farmers to go modern with US farmers’ support
- • Farmer clusters point potato farmers to stable markets
- • Former town boy harvests millions farming in arid area
- • Farmers chase cheaper, superior chicken breed
- • Plastic floating papyrus islands to clean L Naivasha
- • Seed companies warn of ‘Dubai seeds’
- • Goat milk research paper births milk supply station
- • Livestock urine fights banana diseases in Uganda
- • Farmers turn wild sunflowers into low cost fertilizer
- • Farmers harvest millions with cosmetic leaves
- • Kenyan women in diaspora rake millions with health plant
- • Livestock insurance takes risk out of livestock keeping
- • Kenya flower growers change tact to win Western hearts
- • Kenya risks agricultural destruction on demised EU trade talks
- • Farmers earn credits, double yields with soil fertility project
- • Pollinator diseases threaten global crops
- • Western households go commercial with soya cultivation
- • Ash yoghurt catapults pastoralists to international stardom
- • Project bets on organized farm to folk model to grow household incomes
- • Fish breeders and farmers net profits with ‘beauty fish’
- • Pastoralists up milk yields and income with cattle swap project
- • Researchers set sight on free range chickens as demand soars
- • Vanguard farmers turn to motorbikes to irrigate farms
- • Wheat farmers double yields with row planting
- • Soaring fish demand turns farmers into overnight millionaires
- • Researchers grow pest free yams in the air
- • Farmers use anthills to fertilize soils
- • Sossi cultivation boom births unique value addition ventures
- • Abortion in cows
- • Women group spins income with silkworm rearing
- • Farmers access loans with their harvest thanks to receipting model
- • Classifieds
- • As a cow eateth: African livestock emit half of global greenhouse gases due to poor feeding
- • Napier grass woes birth formidable alliances
- • Scientists step up war on East Coast Fever with superior vaccine
- • Bitterless aloe vera opens market opportunities for Western farmers
- ► January (57)
- • Western farmers guard cultural identity with indigenous crop cultivation
- • Consortium to roll out 100 Africa only crops
- • School fights drought with low cost water harvesting model
- • Passion opens international markets for farmer association
- • Health conscious middle class drives fanatical uptake of camel products
- • The rise and rise of banana farming in Kenya
- • Communal feeding pen increases cattle body weight, fetching higher market prices
- • Scientists use satellite images to understand land use among farmers over time
- • Permaculture allows farmers to preserve forests and earn from them
- • Tanzanian farmers cut overreliance on forests with multipurpose palm tree
- • Tracing technology helps farmers beat stringent export requirements
- • Rift farmer creates empire with low cost cattle feed
- • Liming heals western Kenya’s acidic soils, boost farmers’ income
- • Farmers device new ways of produce preservation to beat rising temperature
- • Scientists bet on insects to address biting food shortage
- • Naromoru farmers process fortunes with safflower venture
- • Model pays pastoralists to conserve environment
- • Mobile app assists farmers monitor soil and weather conditions
- • Pest resistant coffee varieties rekindle coffee boom
- • Fruit project introduces over 50,000 farmers to organized value chain
- • Milk chilling plant changes fortunes of 6800 Rift farmers
- • Irrigation biggest threat to ecosystem, study
- • ABCs of maize planting
- • Commercial honey harvesting takes root as demand grows
- • Meru farmers expand market with barcoded dairy products
- • Machine spares coffee farmers hours of hard labour
- • Cactus emerges as a feed for livestock
- • Dissapearing pollinators threaten food security
- • Agribusiness reforms seeks to grow farmers’ income
- • Fish project turns Western farmers into full time entrepreneurs
- • Community granary spares farmers’ produce from floods
- • Farmers record doubled yields with nitrogen fixing fertilizer
- • Vihiga farmers adopt maize that kills ‘purple witch’
- • Farmer preserves peas with tobacco leaves and chilli, saving a fortune
- • Households warm up to soya as prices of alternatives skyrocket
- • Farmers and researchers meet through Mshamba
- • Rice farmers increase sowing speed with new technology
- • Ugandans’ scramble for orange fleshed sweet potatoes change farmers’ fortunes
- • Poultry farmers court alternatives to fight rising feed prices
- • Farmers find benefits in dreaded invasive weed
- • Village banks provide cheap financing for rural farmers
- • Transporting distance affects body weight of broiler chicks, study
- • Milk preserving technology extends shelf life by 30 days, boosting farmers’ revenue
- • Traditional flu curing plant catapults farmers to international stardom
- • School leavers delve into algae farming creating a multipurpose business venture
- • Marigat farmers rear fish in tanks, saving thousands in cost
- • Super nets spur plants' growth
- • Drought resistant rice key to food security
- • Super grass cuts greenhouse gases, tripling yields
- • Irrigation scheme greens Kenya’s arid zone
- • Laikipia farmers delve into online trading with knowledge center
- • Green beans to the rescue of Kenyan farmers
- • Ducks hold key to fighting climate change, study
- • Farmers’ conversion to organic farming triples yields and earnings
- • Seed shortage inspires innovative ventures
- • Germinating factory speeds seeds access time for farmers
- • Researchers tame ‘purple witch’ with unique traps
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- ► December (23)
- • 70m Africans to benefit from fast maturing cassava variety
- • Low cost soil fertility techniques raise yields in Western Kenya
- • Ugandan farmers triple profits with processing machines
- • ‘Drop by drop’ funds farmers to access irrigation technologies
- • Indigenous fruit tree farming rises to fight malnutrition
- • Understanding the Foot and Mouth disease
- • Flower farms count profits with a biological pest control method
- • Kenyan scientist recognized for connecting insects’ role in food security
- • African orphaned crops get academy
- • Smallholder farmers grow profits as hotels compete for their produce
- • Demonstration plots raise farmers’ grain yields
- • Chinese scientists spur Ugandan fish farming with metal cages
- • Farmers a step away from owning greenhouses on loan
- • Passion fruit marketing centers tip the scales in favour of farmers
- • Farmers move to seed bulking creating banks for orphaned crops
- • Fledgling Canola market stalls on lack of seeds
- • New banana disease puts 85 percent of East Africans at risk of starvation
- • Coffee farmers switch to horticulture for profits
- • Schools delve into ‘1000 gardens’ supplementing incomes
- • Maize farmers bypass volatile markets, sell directly to millers
- • Sh500million passion plant changes fortunes of 12,000 Eldoret farmers
- • Policy positions potato as Kenya’s food of the future
- • Markets open up to food solar drying project
- ► November (14)
- • Climate change realigns coffee growing zones
- • Agriculture’s finest feted at Farmers Awards
- • Farmer field schools spur on farm tree cultivation
- • Low cost sweet potato pig feed offer hope to millions of EA farmers
- • Superior mango varieties lift Kilifi farmers’ fortunes
- • Unique silos insulate farmers from weevil attacks
- • Mahogany farmers bet on pollen to save the endangered species
- • Tumbukiza method doubles milk yields
- • Crop pest portal slashes attacks by upto 50 percent
- • Farmers scale up sorghum farming as brewers come calling
- • Project to offset carbon foot print rewards farmers, opening secondary markets
- • Cattle rearing hobby propels farmer to top position nationally
- • Urban gardens gobble up toxins, protecting city dwellers
- • Barley rises as crop of choice as farmers seek new frontiers
- ► December (23)
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