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2013
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May
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Markets open up to cassava farmers with new machine
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Livestock farmers find a quicker fertilization option in embryo transfer
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Livestock farmers insulate themselves from dry spells with plastic bags
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Scientist pursues wild chiken for rural poor
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Farmers cut over reliance on traditional fodder with new technology
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EA farmers an SMS away from crucial market information
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Town farmers get government's support as markets grow
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East African sweet potato gets more nutritious and hybrid
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Farmers partner to clear bushy land for cultivation in record time
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Horticultural farmers get training center that promises increased exports and income
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Farming responsible for a third of harmful gases,study shows
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Certification group gives farmers incentive to grow more
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Fish farmers bet on feed producing machine to grow stocks and income
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Scientists breed high yielding bean variety with farmers' support
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Mwea farmers separate pest infested rice with urea
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Drip irrigation enjoys impressive uptake on economical use of water
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Vanguard farmers irrigate farms with rock water
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Farmers duplicate yam seeds in record time with new machine
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Emerging fish diseases threaten stocks and income
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Farmers save 40 percent income by soaking fertilizer before application
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The programme that trains and fetes women scientists
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Farmers quench hoteliers' thirst for tamarind fruits
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Commercial villages give farmers competitive market prices for their onions
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Laikipia tree farmers earn Sh100 for a kilo of leaves, saving endangered varieties
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Staple food Project promises farmers double income in 15 years
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Triple bags storage fights pests, reducing post harvest losses
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Kakamega herb farmers capture regional market
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Farmers make rice husk briquettes with local machine
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Farmers fertilize soils with nuts
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Farmers count on human waste for bumper harvest
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Kenyan smallholder farmers to sell to UK markets directly
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Farmers triple yields with non expiring fertilizer
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Maasai farmers harvest runoff water turning barren lands to oases
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Government introduces drought resistant grass to pastoral farmers
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Kenyan middle class drives local flower market
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April
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Information gap locks thousands of dairy farmers from unique insemination method
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Bicycle powered maize sheller shells fourty times more than hand saving farmers labour costs
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Kenya taps into green farming to up exports
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Ukambani farmers abandon cereal cultivation for the lucrative tree farming
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How a market idea made Makueni farmers millionaires
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Grass arrests soil erosion, cleans up soils
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Tea farmers process own tea earning more than their counterparts
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Farmers turn wastelands into greenbelts with earth dams
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Maize killer that swept Rift resurfaces
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Farmers earn income and fame for preserving indigenous gourds
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Scientists fight climate change, population pressure with sweet potato
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Kenya could have a salt tolerant rice variety in 4 years
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Cheap livestock breeding center boosts farmers' pockets and economy
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Wild cassava variety addresses food insecurity, increases yields
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Farmers up milk yields, cut feed costs with fattening tuber
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Friendly fungi introduced in beans and cassava to fight pests
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Online tool helps farmers identify over 200 rice weeds
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Farmers improve soil health and fight pests with cover crops
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GM cotton linked to rise in voracious pest
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Long rains, political uncertainty double the price of tomatoes
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Superior sweet potato vines promise farmers 5x more yields than maize
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Sh63million funding targets innovators with ideas but no cash
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Cow mattresses up milk yields, fight mastitis
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Western Kenya farmers test soil acidity via phones
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Livestock skin odours assist scientists tame Rift Valley Fever
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Confining pigs increases weight, halves diseases, researchers say
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Ukambani farmers grow income and yields with communal seed banks
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Sh5billion set to revolutionize Africa's strategic crops
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Sun best bet for processing the lucrative Aloe paste study shows
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Electronic extension services target youth and address staff shortfall
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Export paper trail strangles Kenyan sales and earnings
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Insecticide treated nets triple milk yields and protect livestocks
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March
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Ugandans warm up to super chicken
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Scientists help farmers tame maize disease as planting gets underway
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Wanton deforestation threatens anti malarial trees in Kenya
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Sh8.5 million to end biggest cassava threats in Africa
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Farmers can still increase income growing local crops with high value ones
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Africa holds key to trillion dollar food market, World Bank says
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Kenya seeks to reclaim the glory of its black gold
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Herbal pesticide emerge as a cheap solution to banana disease
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Female farmers a click away from data under UN, Airtel deal
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Coffee pest now attacks horticulture threatening Kenya's export earnings
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Meat fertilizer technology could end fertilizer woes in Kenya
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Farmers trap sun rays to fight pests
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Ostrich farming rises on new markets and health conscious consumers
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Farmers gain from multinationals' hunger for raw materials
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Nyeri farmers fight fruit flies and thieves with red ants
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Compost manure as good in crop yield as synthetic fertilizer scientists say
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Financing options for Kenya's smallholder farmers
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February
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Masts to measure weather and refrigerate vaccines
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Kenyan tree farm redefines farming in Rwanda
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'Mangoes from above' create new markets and income
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Green pepper fortify East African bananas
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Kenya scores another first with climate resource center
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Fact Sheet: Seed suppliers in Kenya
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Kisii youth create 19 value added banana products
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Farmers to learn with locally translated videos
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Improved avocado variety set to lift Kenya's export figures
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Farmers earn for intercropping vegetables with sugarcane
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Mining technology to increase nutrition in food crops
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Potato powered battery to the rescue of rural Kenyans
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Group uses sticks and metal to find underground water
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Farmers win big as customers go for neglected yam
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Sand dams change face of farming in Kitui
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Kenya courts electronic tongue to test tea
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Demystifying Kenya's pest control arsenal
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Tech that captures fish sound on laptop saves rare species
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Fund introduces loans for egg incubators
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Scientists use digital camera to contain banana pest
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Western farmers to own cows thanks to Mumias
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Sleeping with chicken increases human diseases
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Kenya edges closer to eradicating East Coast Fever
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Kenya uses technology to explore underground water
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Farmers ignore lucrative global wonder crop
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January
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Farmers use tractor smoke as fertilizer
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Kenya curbs poaching with new technology
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Online trading platform draws more youth to farming
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Farmers jittery over food nutrient campaign
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Satelite technology to curb illegal fishing.
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New grass insulates farmers from deadly disease
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Fund to change face of Turkana farming
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Farmers earn from egg shells
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Farmers use red light to grow crops in record time
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Farmers embrace upland rice to grow income
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Tea clones promise farmers triple yields
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Illegal hunters sell Kenya's rare bird meat for a song
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Kenya bets on dutch potato variety to grow sales
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Bamboo bicycles to assist farmers access markets
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Farming colleges to redefine Ukambani farming
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Government mulls agribusiness course in schools
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Farmer uses wire mesh to contain aflatoxin menace
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Fact Sheet: Greenhouse options and costs in Kenya
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Oil tins and molasses trap cotton pest reducing losses
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Crop breeding and patenting threaten future planting
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Rearing fish under chicken shed increases yields 4 times
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2012
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December
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Soybean newfound global use could benefit Kenyan farmers
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Pawpaw seeds cure poultry disease
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Banana charcoal saves livelihoods and forests
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Youths make a killing out of bat droppings
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Collateral free financing for farmers launched
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Farmers warm up to Sh20,000 kadogo drip kit
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Scientists flex green muscle against locusts
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November
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The seedbank that preserves historical wonder crops
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Farmbiz guide for contributors
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Fact Sheet: Making a million yearly with red onions
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Fact Sheet: Making money with egg incubators
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Farmer makes juice from weeds, tripling income
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How bulls cause cow infertility
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US hospital feed patients with greenhouse, teaches Kenya
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Experts pitch for money that grows on trees
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Camel skin drums beat in favour of farmers and traders
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Government mulls fertilizer plant with caution
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Hotels chase makuti branches creating millionaire farmers
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Kenyan child wonder feted globally for lion defence
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Meru floors Kisii to lead in banana production
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Vanguard farmer grafts fast maturing apple variety
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October
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Bananas build as food of future
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Scientists unveil water friendly rice variety
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Fruit farmers court bats to fight pests
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Farmers court worms to protect environment and earn income
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The Sh383billion to awaken the sleeping giant
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Fish traders scale income with skin
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Farmers re invent barter trade with manure
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Farmer earns millions from taboo birds
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Egg day: Shocking Kenyans egg eating habits
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Livestock farmers substitute commercial feeds for houseflies
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Unit to reduce animal human diseases sevenfold
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Ugandan farmers lure Kenyans into hibiscus farming
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Germinating factory ups seed production tenfold
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Farmers cut calf death by quarter thanks to feeder bottle
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Student makes yoghurt and wine from cactus
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Dairy giant ups payments to draw supplies for dry milk
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Fact Sheet: The Mombasa Tea Auction
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World Bank opens funding centre for local farm solutions
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Naming a cow increases its milk output
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September
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Scientists use satellite to hit tsetse on target
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China tackles meat shortage with Kenyan import deal
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Nigeria cracks fertiliser blight with 10m free phones
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Crab spray delays rotting of bananas
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New-style chicken cage saves feed and eggs
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Fact Sheet: Top Watermelon Methods
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KTDA pays highest in world to small scale tea farmers
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Agribusiness tours boom as farmers seek step up
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Kenyan pastoralists key in eradicating cow plague
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Fact sheet: Fodder shrubs
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Scientists alarmed by drop in pollinators
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Fact Sheet: Seed Suppliers
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Web tool points farmers to best irrigation options
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Organic farming not an environmental solution, claims research
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Government opens Sh2bn farmer census to match policy with needs
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Flower farms tap into lucrative carbon market
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Poor soils savage banana yields across EA
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Farmers grow maize with mobile phones
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Farmers reap from prisoners’ potato tomato cross breed
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Tea body builds green energy to cut EA tea costs
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Sweet potato gets faster and sweeter
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Nestle creates 26,000+ world-class coffee farmers in Kenya
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August
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Farmers lead revolution in water harvesting
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Geneticists build new rice for poor soils
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Pawpaws and Sodom apple cure bilharzia, say scientists
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Coastal farmers crack Sh20,000 crayfish market
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Vanguard women turn animal blood to cheap fertilizer
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Freer milk market drives network built of entrepreneurs
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Pyrethrum farmers plead for disbanding of board
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Next2 offers farmers SMS selling and info networks
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Goat program delivers '000s of superior crossbreeds
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Farmbizafrica wins again
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KARI targets arid farming with Turkana centre
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KARI creates 35,000 super chicken
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Rocks to crops billed as Africa's future
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Goat plague flares again igniting fear of epidemic
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Weaver ants clear crops of pests in minutes
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Nut processors pledge to aid farmers boost output
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Exporters chase lost billions with Swahili guide to standards
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First Sh2.2bn fund for small agribusinesses
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Geneticists trick cabbage pest on to tobacco
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New crop farmers in Turkana wake to locusts
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Seed potatoes from healthy mother plants up yields
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Farmbizafrica journalist voted best in East Africa
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Embryo transfers deliver cheap high-yielding Friesians
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Vanguard farmers use tacler to sell more globally
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Vanguard farmers use tackler to sell more globally
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Crop breeding experts meet to boost seed production
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KWFT livestock loans offer all-in-one life upgrade
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KARI trials super-maize for issue 2015
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CIP unveils cheap fermented pig feed
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Technology uses water to estimate drought
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July
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KWS warns of jail for unlicensed game farming
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Knowledge Bank gives farmers pest tool
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Six acres of cheese feeds thousands
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KARI warns farmers to act fast on chicken fowl pox
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Kenyan institutions mobilise to triple potato harvest
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Icow delivers doubled milk yields, report farmers
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Farmers count the sweet snap of 10x more income
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Coffee sector reels from thieving
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Farmers report instant gains from milking machines
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Farm of marvels sells feathers and flights
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Lucrative soya brings western soils back to life
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VAT on agriculture spells food insecurity, falling exports
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Bamboo and wire transform passion fruit harvests
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Ministry trains fish farmers for better sales
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New material regulates heat in poultry sheds
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Ethiopia and Tanzania 'hotspots' for animal diseases killing humans
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Kenyan poultry farms closing on cheaper Ugandan eggs
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Collar provides new tsetse protection for shillings
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Sweet potato production more than doubles in 2 years
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Software calculates ideal local feeding for livestock
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Scientists identify disease resistant coffee varieties
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US gives go-ahead for importing of Kenyan beans
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Young graduate builds flour plant to tackle banana glut
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Project launched to eradicate African lung plague
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Scientists urge cactus planting for high-grade livestock fodder
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Bug threatens Kenya's lucrative eucalyptus trade
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Researchers fight witch weed with new technology
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June
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New plant investment seeks 12000 passion fruit farmers
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Kenya's seed shortage sows innovative ventures
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Kenya's crop insurance wins international innovation award
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Coastal farmers dive into seaweed market
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Coastal farmers dive into seaweed market
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UoN leads with climate change studies for farm survival
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New breed of shrubs change farmers fortunes in East Africa
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Consortium rolls out agro nets that slash aphids
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Kenya top risk for fatal poultry disease
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Free beehives end losses to marauding elephants
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Study delivers way to end cowpea losses
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Isiolo farmers halve livestock deaths with tank
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Scientists identify maize killer sweeping Rift
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PROFIT deal aims to deliver $100m more in farmers loans
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M-Calc gives local weather solutions to up outputs
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Seed man leads '000s of farmers into bio-farming
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Researchers flag growth and big profits in fruit and veg
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Returns surge for sheep farmers on burgeoning wool demand
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New money grows on trees in Mombasa
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Scientists launch cyanide-free sorghum for drought farmers
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JK aims to increase loans to rural farmers six-fold
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JK aims to increase loans to rural farmers six-fold
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Childrens' farms create 20000+ new, young farmers
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May
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Farmers end disease for free-range chickens with aloe vera
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Farmers shift to home-made solution to bean fly
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Research opens on high-yield rice for Africa
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Investment plan set up to promote local fertiliser production
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New wheat launched to rescue GDP growth
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Leaf stamp spells control of aflatoxins for shillings
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Sea water technology to end farmers' drought woes
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Agricultural growth slowed 2011 on drought
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Anti fake seed agency launched to fight counterfeits
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Coffee pulper cuts crop processing time by a week
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New groundnut triples returns in Kieni
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Kenyan farmers news service moves pan-African
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Commercial potential for the humble cactus pear
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Kiwi disease traced to China
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New tech takes the weeping out of processing chillies
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Walling out weevils ups potato yields
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Chick brooding chamber slashes poultry farm costs
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Growers lured back into chives by rising demand
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Global partners move to create African soil map
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Banana canopies lead to better coffee crops
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April
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Secret lion dung method saving livestock and crops
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Plants with drought history gain survival mechanisms
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Farmers use wheels and mirrors to end potato blight
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Study proves gains from growing rice and fish together
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Microdosing increases yields on infertile soils
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New research offers way to restore Kenyan mahogany growth
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Farmers urged to plant Kenya's high-value medicinal prune tree before extinction
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Farmers get help buying silos to save maize from pests
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Rice farmers cut costs and seed loss with plastic drum planting
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Camels rise as Kenya’s livestock industry of the future
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Two million tea trees earn top dollars for Mount Kenya farmers
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March
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Scientists use new super-weevil to eat water hyacinth to death
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Kenya trials oil palm to serve burgeoning local market
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Rift farmer unearths preservation method transforming potato market
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Scientists urge coffee growers to save their future with shade trees
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Kenya's booming wind energy
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Kenya pioneers climate-smart agriculture to earn carbon credits
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Whistling pine turns Mombasa group into rising entepreneurs
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High demand for aromatic herbs expands farming horizon in dry areas
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Parasite attack in US opens window for Kenyan honey exporters
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Rift valley farmers bet on milk chilling plant, shrubs to grow income
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East African farmers reap profits with new herb used in drugs to fight malaria
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Tourists visit villages to grow organic farming
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Traditional herbs give farmers market among the health conscious
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Kenyan farmers quench demand for Ethiopian cuisine with teff
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Farmers court South African soft drink company with new papaya variety
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Kenya looses on gum tree benefits as Sudan rake billions
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Farmers quench pharmaceuticals’ demand for hive by product
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Chameleons change colour of money for innovative farmers
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Markets open up to Kenya's beeswax
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Farmers make table salt from aquatic plant
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Farmers invest in feeder roads to reach markets
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Farmers turn wild fruits into a money spinner
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Price incentives spur sisal farming comeback
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Cotton revival in rift valley as buying prices rise
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Academics learn from 'bush universities'
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Kari breeding high-value beans for canners
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Star Farmer
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Crocodile farming rises as new opportunity
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Farmers to go mobile to buy inputs and budget
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Lowly bixa shrub rises as valuable raw material at coast
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Ktda rolls out new weighing technology
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Marketing knowhow project repositions banana smallholders
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Marketing knowhow project repositions banana smallholders
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Communities thrive on bringing tourists to the farm
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WFP chases more than 20,000 new smallholder suppliers
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Beauty foods create expanding global market for fruits
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Mushroom tea and coffee launched into ea health market
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1000 farmers plant indian miracle tree
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Kenya takes to the sweet taste of the avocado market
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Ethics finally guiding tea picking and processing in kenya
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Farmers stay in teabags as trade policy slashes the market
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Goat milk farming rises as new industry
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Farmers earn from selling leaves for chandeliers
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Kenya still short as world maize prices fall
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Coffee set for prolonged surge in prices on short harvests
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Turmeric emerging as a cure-all
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New guide fuels thousands of green shoppers
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New research proves beetroot as health super food
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Limited data accessible to farmers makes a company look for a partner to run its network
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Banana farmers turn fruit to wine, as Hero’s Power
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Pastoralists earn for conserving ecosystem
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Kenyas' Scientists breakthrough in the war on tsetse fly
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Soaring cost of maize scaling back chicken production
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Murang'a farmers preserve fresh produce with solar dryer
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Farmers using lime, increase maize yields 8X
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From hawking cigarettes to poultry millionaire: a farmer journey
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Kit developed to detect non-fertile eggs
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Butterfly farmers strike gold in butterfly conservation project
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Business farmer turns wasteland into award winning food basket
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Waste water drives urban farming and urban disease
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Eastern farmers move back into cotton on price revival
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Precious gums emerge as new sector for north-east
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Aloe vera adds up as precious weed
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The farm comes to nairobeans, for rent or agri-business holidays
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Farmer benefits from rain water harvesting
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Kakamega farmers scoop top global awards for growing wild plant
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Smallholders buying fresians in rent-to-pay programme
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Artisan dreams a living out of old banana stalks
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Safflower takes as route to food oil market
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Wfp rolls out training and funds to source smallholder maize
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Farm project doubles incomes for eastern maize farmers
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Association launched to drive farmers harder into banana market
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Google saved my potatoes
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Barcoding opens up milk market for meru goat farmers
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The farmer who beat the middle men to wealth
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Kenyan farmers to get trained on greenhouses in south africa
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Small scale farmers opt for crop failure insurance on seeds and inputs
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High-return mushroom growing stalls on marketing issues
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When dead wood is good wood
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Farmers queue for super-resistant fencing poles from waste
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Clones promise route to kplc pole market
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Kencall moves into farm support with helpline
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Speedy arbitration leaves squatters in fresh land rows
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Experts pitch for no tillage to curb land degradation
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Farmers to benefit from smartphone app that monitor greenhouses
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Farmers find cheap solution to locust menace
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Moyale farmers reap from low cost preservation of camel meat
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Sweet potato glut inspires portagurt production
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Marsabit farmers pay price for poor planting information
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New technology protect pineapples from sun damage,boosting harvest
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Efforts to promote growing of vitamin A rich sweet potatoes pays off
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A project leverage the untapped potential of sweet potato
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New study places livestock among drivers of economy
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Cassava disease wipes swathes of land as million stare at starvation
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Near extinct nut elevate farmers to enteprenurial life
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Candle smoke reduces rice pest by forty percent
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Third generation potato seed multiplication lift farmers fortunes
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Scientists unveil superior and cheaper East Coast Fever vaccine
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Mission to position small scale farmers to grow their way out of hunger
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New invention offers weevils solution
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Farmers discover cost cutting liquid fertilizer
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Kari increases immunity of free range chicken with eyedrop vaccine
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Poor hoof trimming the leading cause of lameness in livestock
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Plant doctors slash foreign plant diseases by three-quarters
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Herders count losses as spreading disease threatens to wipe out goats
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Farmers use insects to kill insects
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Grafting becomes farmers' silver bullet against pests and diseases
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Poultry farmers grapple with voracious mites
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New multi tasking animal comes to the rescue of farmers
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Farmers reap the sweet returns of sweetener's farming
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Flower farms reap from waste water management
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Insects address food insecurity and environmental degradation
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Army worm sex trap help farmers fight the voracious moth
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New breed of shrubs that returns impressive results for livestock
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Group of farmers in Marsabit is turning to ways of harvesting water and securing water supplies
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Farmer field schools gaining ground in Kenya
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Kenyans love for tea push consumption higher
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Women turn water cleansing method into money machine
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Central Kenya farmers find fortunes in strawberry leaves
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Research firm launches new land saving bean variety
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Farmers learn to optimize small pieces of land
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Researchers plot against coffee thrips invasion
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Irrigation innovation saves farmers water
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Farmers find benefits in a dreaded invasive weed
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New finger millet varieties set for release
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New plant tonic enhances crop productivity
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Farmers find reprieve in solar powered water pumps
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New commercial mango varieties promise fortunes for coastal farmers
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1000 gardens initiative in Africa to revolutionize farming
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Agricultural researchers plot against the aflatoxin menace
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Popping more than just corn
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Predatory mite offers reprieve for flower firms against voracious spider mite
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Farmers turn to 'fertiliser tree' to boost crop production
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Scientist proves farmers’ need of healthy insects
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Amiran kenya targets “facebook farmers” in brain-fed agriculture initiative
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Herb offers low cost respite from ticks, aphids and mites
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Rapeseed plant turns maize farmer into vegetable oil producer
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Napier planting technique that increases milk production
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Coconut rises as commercial crop in coast
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Agra funds a breeding research program for better seeds
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Agra funds a breeding research program for better seeds
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Un unveils a crop calendar for farmers
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Camel milk becomes the new cash cow for anolei women's group
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Seed projects sprout from rising demand for high value greens
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Researchers set eco traps to keep striga weed at bay
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Silk worm farming turns into a money spinner for farmers
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Terracing helps kenyan farmers' reclaim barren slopy lands
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Home made pest control methods gain grounds among East African farmers
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Farmers find a cheap,environmental friendly alternative to fertilizer in waste products
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CABI's plant clinics offer respite to farmers
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Six gm crops to help farmers survive climate change and up food security
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Kari launches blueprint to fix kenya’s sick soils
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Pig measuring tool tips the scales in favour of farmers
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New farmers push machinery sales by 70 percent
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New technology moves farmers beyond fertilisers, via legumes
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Soybean farming blossoms in growth market
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Aqua shops move western fish farmers into commercial business
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Yellow passion fruit doubles fruit farmers incomes
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Workshops reposition agro-dealers as farming experts
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organic herb exporter draws 500 farmers into high-growth market
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Local seed grower launches high-quality trial seeds for Sh10 a pack
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Basic measures bring huge price gains for coffee co-op farmers
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livestock finance for farmers triples in last year
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milk analyser opens way to perfect records of buying and selling
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slum dwellers adopt urban farming as step up
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High-return onion farming lures urban professionals back to land
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kari primes potato sector with fast-track tuber growing technology
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Experts redraw insurance model to protect drought-stricken herders
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fish group builds satellite centre to upgrade pond yields
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kilimo biashara pours in water and funds for small-holders
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kenya’s annual agricultural showcase
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kari trials super potato
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farmers groups move into nurseries and leaf oils
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breeders import super cow for milk and beef
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farmers install commercial hives for wax and honey
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solar water pumping to take root in kenya
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solar water pumping takes root in Kenya
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Onion farmers earn fortunes from hybrids
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parasitic wasps introduced to save orchards from fruit flies
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arm launches new banana fertilizer upping yields
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grasses protect kenyan maize from stem borer peril
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new cabbage offers respite from pests and droughts
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new tomato breeds released for outdoors and greenhouses
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‘000s of farmers move onto high-return dried food industry
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new high yield maize seeds released
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kari launches wonder cassava with 4x yield
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kephis expands sms service giving highest yield seeds for each region
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rainwater experts launch projects to end drought for farmers
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premature harvesting fanning the aflatoxin menace
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improved banana offers fast-track for small scale farmers
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baobab emerges as next super-food and big industry
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low-cost irrigation kit launched for peasant farmers
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bamboo offers green gold for kenyan farmers
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East african shea butter becomes cosmetics gold
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home-grown aloe vera moves into mainstream
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kari mini-greenhouse ups yields by 2x to 6x
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jatropha: turning kenyan desert into fields
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February
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Star Farmers
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farmers to benefit from smartphone app that monitor greenhouses
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Kenya pioneers climate-smart agriculture to earn carbon credits for farmers
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January
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Simple purple dye saves free range chicks from biggest killer (2)
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Simple purple dye saves free range chicks from biggest killer
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