Picture this. Douglas Wanjala a small scale horticultural farmer in Rift Valley visits his local agrovet each month to buy his favourite pesticide. He does this once a month, to rid the cabbages off t [ ... ]

Communities in Laikipia are using Y shaped sticks and metal rods to detect underground water, a simple technology that is cushioning them from lack of water during dry spells. The water locating techn [ ... ]

Vanguard farmers are halving pests in their farms and improving soil health at a mimimum cost with cover crops,a unique breed od non crops like grains, legumes and grasses that are fast growing and su [ ... ]

Researchers are set to start confined field trials of genetically modified banana variety in 2014, a variety genetically engineered to resist bacterial wilt, a disease responsible for over 60 percent  [ ... ]

Lack of requisite information on greenhouse farming and management is turning against majority of farmers who rush into the promising venture buoyed by the good returns, with failure to observe simple [ ... ]

Maize farmers in Kenya and East Africa are set to benefit from two new hybrid maize varieties that are not only resistant to the deadly parasitic Striga weed, but also resistant to the dreaded Maize L [ ... ]

Farmers in Voi have endlessly courted the woes of soil erosion with over half of their crops swept by raging waters every season until a unique multi purpose wonder grass was introduced to them which  [ ... ]

A farmer in Kitui has used a fine wire mesh to device a modest anti aflatoxin technology meant to preserve maize and grains for a longer period,and which is 90 percent more effective in preventing foo [ ... ]

Agroforestry experts are advocating for a change in tree farming from just increasing national tree cover to commercial farming by smallholder farmers, as it emerges that farmers who are already earni [ ... ]

Maasai farmers in Lekuton area of Narok are insulating themselves from drought through low cost, locally assembled spherical tanks that are assisting them harvest runoff water to supplement irrigation [ ... ]

A little known yam variety native to Western Kenya is fast replacing bread among the area's middle class, giving the yam farmers an economic upper hand as retail stores compete to stock it to meet the [ ... ]

Deforestation and over exploitation of trees that have promising anti malarial qualities have put the trees at risk of extinction with scientists warning that their their potential to become widesprea [ ... ]

Two years since scientists transferred unique proteins from sweet green pepper into East African Highland Bananas to fight the deadly Banana xanthomonas wilt, farmers in the region are reporting doubl [ ... ]

Kenyan scientists are learning from their Rwandan counterparts how to use a technology used in the mining sector to test and analyse mineral content of food crops that will ultimately assist them deve [ ... ]

The Kenyan government is set to import a high yielding disease resistant potato variety from Netherlands which will assist the over 800,000 farmers expand their market as hotels and processors shun lo [ ... ]

Organic deposits sitting on the bed of Lake Naivasha and other fresh water lakes in Kenya could be the solution to Kenya's fertilizer shortage war, with the deposits fertilizing the soils twice as muc [ ... ]

Farmers keen on keeping pests at bay while reducing chemicals on their farms are now courting a low cost practice of trapping the sun's energy into plastic bags and directing it to soils, ending over  [ ... ]

A project launched by KARI scientists eight years ago to locate, document and conserve the genetic diversity of the East African sweet potato has culminated in the preservation of high yielding variet [ ... ]

A farming model where farmers come together to till each other's land in turn at no pay, and which was common in the nineties, is making a comeback having now assisted farmers till large pieces of lan [ ... ]

Farmers in Butula area of Busia are assisting researchers breed high yielding bean varieties that suit their consumption needs, after a bacteria disease wiped entire fields leading to Sh5million in yi [ ... ]

Rice farmers in Mwea Irrigation area are mixing urea, salt and water to separate healthy ripe seeds from the raw and pest infested ones for planting, a move that has seen them save time and money at a [ ... ]

Drip irrigation is enjoying brisk uptake among smallholder farmers keen on economizing water use especially in arid and semi-arid regions, with the technology delivering triple yields compared to the  [ ... ]

  Yam farmers in Homa Bay county are using a simple technology to produce their own disease-free seed yams for planting which has so far raised production by an impressive 20 percent after years [ ... ]

At a time when the price of fertilizer has hit unprecedented highs, innovative farmers are applying the water-soluble fertilizers through a drip irrigation system, a move they say have saved them upto [ ... ]

Farmers in Kenya are trialling a simple triple bag post harvest storage technology which has returned roaring success in West Africa having cut pest menace by upto 90 percent. Though it is used predom [ ... ]

  Farmers growing traditional crops like maize side by side with legumes are recording more than double increase in yields and cutting down on fertilizer spend as legumes fertilize the soils at  [ ... ]

Farmers using human urine to grow their produce are reporting doubled yields in a farming practice that is fast gaining ground across the world, having received backing from scientists as a viable way [ ... ]

Farmers courting a unique organic fertilizer made from decomposing vegetation are tripling yields and incomes, while getting to keep it for upto five years while still active, insulating themselves fr [ ... ]

Pastoralists in West Pokot and other pastoralist zones are set to benefit from a drought friendly and fast maturing grass variety that promises year round fodder for their livestock in a bid to stem p [ ... ]

A campaign to get farmers in Kibwezi area of Ukambani plant the drought resistant, multipurpose Melia volkensii, commonly known as Mukau tree has paid off by increasing household income by up to Sh10, [ ... ]

Behind year round guaranteed yields in the semi arid Laikipia district, is a novel idea where farmers are digging trenches that capture run off water during rainy seasons, which is then slowly release [ ... ]

A fatal maize disease that wiped thousands of acres of maize crops in Kenya's breadbasket area of Rift Valley threatening millions of Kenyans with  starvation last year has resurfaced in what sci [ ... ]

A super salt tolerated rice variety that can expel salty water from the from the soil to the air through glands on its leaves has been unveiled, opening new farming opportunities to coastal farmers wh [ ... ]

Combining tissues from different cassava species may lead to a new method for improving the staple crop for some 800 million people around the world, according to Brazilian researchers. The research h [ ... ]

A new dose of friendly fungi could be the much awaited secret for boosting the resilience of beans and cassava to pest attacks scientists now say, a discovery that could free farmers from years of ove [ ... ]

Farmers can now spot over 200 rice weed varieties at the click of a button thanks to an interactive tool launched by scientists coming at a time when the weeds are estimated to cost Sub Saharan countr [ ... ]

In an ironical twist, the genetically engineered cotton varieties that Kenya is about to embrace for cultivation by farmers, due to their ability to ward off caterpillars by producing their own insect [ ... ]

Every planting season, Mercy Nelima rushes to her local agrovet to get the best fertilizer. But at every harvest her acre of land produces lower yields than the previous harvest. This even after inves [ ... ]

Behind lush pigeon peas farms and towering millet crops in Makueni county are community seed repositories that have not only afforded the farmers year round supply of crops and income, but also insula [ ... ]

The Ministry of Agriculture has launched a Sh50million electronic extension service in a bid to address the chronic shortage of extension officers and also entice more youth to agriculture at a time w [ ... ]

As farmers get down to planting, scientists are advising farmers on simple farming techniques that will insulate them from the deadly maize lethal necrotic (MLN) disease that hit the country last year [ ... ]

A herbal pesticide made of tree and unique grass varieties has assisted over 10,000 Ugandan banana farmers fight the dreaded Banana wilt disease responsible for over half of losses in yields, a discov [ ... ]

A coffee disease responsible for destroying 90 percent of a plant within days is now attacking other types of fruits and vegetables in Uganda, scientists warn, in what is now threatening to spread to  [ ... ]

A technology to assist in production of ammonia and phosphates,two key ingredients in fertilisers, entirely through organic wastes like meat and food waste is being developed, a move that would be wel [ ... ]

Farmers in Nyeri are using red ants to wade off voracious fruit pests, cutting fruit loss by upto 60 percent and keeping thieves at bay, in a model that has succesfully worked in Vietnam having saved  [ ... ]

Organic compost manure can achieve similar food yields as synthetic fertilizer scientists now say, in  what could now save smallholder farmers from over reliance on the expensive fertilizers and  [ ... ]

 One of the biggest factors holding back Kenyan agribusiness is the low uptake of high-yield seeds, developed over decades by research institutes and seed companies. KARI says they are still only [ ... ]

A potato powered battery trialed two years ago by scientists to cater for the lighting needs of the rural communities not connected to the national grid, is now ready for commercialization, a move tha [ ... ]

A novel water harvesting method in Kitui county has changed the fortunes of over 70,000 farmers, leading to food diversification and job creations in an area traditionally at the mercy of the rain god [ ... ]

Scientists in Uganda have devised a way of detecting pests embedded in the roots of bananas through use of of digital camera, a timely move meant to contain pests responsible for over 40 percent of yi [ ... ]

Scientists conducting research on various ways of augmenting protein in peoples' diets have recommended the traditionally neglected rape seed oil, offering lessons to Kenya where the plant even though [ ... ]

Arusha farmers are teaching their Kenyan counterparts a revolutionary technology that helps turn harmful farming machinery smoke into soil fertilizer having introduced to them last year and recorded i [ ... ]

A high yielding, fast maturing rice variety that defies traditional rice growing conditions has been introduced to Murang'a farmers promising them higher income than other traditional cereals while of [ ... ]

The Tea Research Foundation is set to deliver to the over 600,000 tea farmers improved clones meant to triple leaf yields replacing the old ones at a time when the the demand for Kenyan tea globally i [ ... ]

Smallholder farmers are warming up to a miniature portable drip kit that is offering them over 90 percent efficiency in water conservation for only Sh20,000 at a time when water has become scarce due  [ ... ]

Kenyan scientists are actively vouching for widespread uptake of a locust biopesticide, whose success in Tanzania saved over 15million people from starvation, at a time when over 100,000 farmers in th [ ... ]

Behind Kenya Agricultural Research Institute’s spirited efforts to save endangered plant species sits a little known storage facility: the National Gene Bank of Kenya, a repository that houses over  [ ... ]

Meru county has toppled Kisii from their first position in banana production to emerge national leaders with a revenue of Sh77billion annually government statistics now say. Improved banana varieties [ ... ]

Banana could be the only food source for millions of families in developing countries in the future as traditional crops struggle with change in climate, a new study reveals. Due to its ability to we [ ... ]

Research institution KARI has developed a high-yielding rice variety which uses 40 percent less water and yields 50 percent more grain than traditional variety, and is to be rolled out to farmers who  [ ... ]

Orchard farmers in Kisii, long buffeted by flies and insects have successfully courted bats to tame the menace recording a significant drop in insect infested fruits while cutting down on pesticide us [ ... ]

Farmers in Molo area of Kenya's Rift are now rearing worms whose waste they use to make nutrient rich organic manure within 3 days while halving the use of conventional fertilizers which have been res [ ... ]

A solar powered mobile germination and seedling plant factory that halves the time seeds take to germinate while producing ten times more seeds than traditional methods has been unveiled in Uasin Gish [ ... ]

A global study has reported a 40 per cent drop, in the last decade, in the population of the insects that pollinate two-thirds of the world'sfood production crops, raising an additional specter in ach [ ... ]

One of the most comprehensive studies of East African soils ever undertaken has confirmed that farming practices have leeched the soil of nutrients without replenishing them, to such a degree as to be [ ... ]

Thousands of Kenyan farmers are reaping from an innovative technology that allows them to grow tomatoes and potatoes on the same stem through grafting, having first been innovated and trialed by inmat [ ... ]

Small scale irrigation is the key to a near tripling of sub-Saharan Africa's yields, according to a new study that has uncovered a revolution in the ways in which smallholders are driving low-cost far [ ... ]

A group of vanguard women farmers from Banana Hill area of Kiambu county have perfected the art of turning colon waste and blood from a local butchery into a much sought after fertilizer that is provi [ ... ]

Tanzanian farmers are teaching Kenyan counterparts how to domesticate weaver ants that ward off the voracious fruit flies responsible for huge horticultural crop losses and serial export bans on Kenya [ ... ]

The African Cashew Alliance (ACA) and Nut Processor Association of Kenya (NUTPAK) have signed a pact to increase nut production and processing in East Africa, in a drive to address the industry's dwin [ ... ]

A scientist from the University of Copenhagen has made a breakthrough in deceiving the voracious diamond back moth - responsible for over 60 per cent of yield losses in cabbages and most common in Eas [ ... ]

Farmers in Turkana county who turned from livestock to crops after drought wiped out their livestock are now grappling with locust attacks on a scale not previously seen. Farmers belonging to Kang'ili [ ... ]

More than 100 African crop breeding experts have been meeting in Nairobi to discuss ways of developing thousands of high performing and high impact seed varieties for smallholders, as Africa continues [ ... ]

The Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), together with international scientists, has developed a new set of maize varieties that survive more extreme weathers and emerging maize diseases to p [ ... ]

Passion fruit farmers in the Shimba Hills area of Coast province have doubled their fruit production and increased sales six-fold thanks to a simple, low-cost innovation made from bamboo and wire grid [ ... ]

Scientists have identified two coffee varieties in India that are resistant to the coffee leaf rust and coffee berry disease (CBD) that are responsible for over 70 per cent of coffee yield losses in K [ ... ]

Kenyan maize farmers how have a chance to smile after local scientists recently launched a new technology that pro tects new hybrid maize from  the deadly striga weed that is farmers' biggest hea [ ... ]

Local scientists have found a novel way of using mosquito nets to ward off aphids and caterpillars, the most common pests on fruits and vegetables, with agro nets that they say eliminate 90 per cent o [ ... ]

A new study has found a way of storing the drought-tolerant legume,cowpeas, so as to prevent their destruction by weevils, in a low-cost solution that could benefit millions of farmers across Africa.
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Kenyan scientists have finally identified the unknown disease that has destroyed thousands of acres of maize crops in Kenya's breadbasket area of Rift Valley threatening millions of Kenyans with starv [ ... ]

Samuel Nderitu is a small scale farmer with a mission. In just four years, he has managed to convince over 5,000 farmers to move into bio-intensive seed farming and banking, meaning they can regenerat [ ... ]

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have launched a new type of the corn-like crop sorghum that no longer becomes toxic in prolonged drought, offering the hope that thousands of farmers may no [ ... ]

At a time when the Kenyan government is stepping up its call to young people to embrace farming, a regional NGO is piloting school breakfast clubs and kitchen gardens as a means of cultivating a cultu [ ... ]

Simple home made solutions using African Marigold, papaya and neem with soap water are proving 60 per cent more effective in controlling the bean fly menace than conventional pest control, with farmer [ ... ]

The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), based in Nairobi, has signed a license agreement with Japan Tobacco (JT) to develop new rice varieties that will increase rice yields, improve fo [ ... ]

International scientists are close to launching a groundbreaking technology that equips plants to warn farmers of the presence of specific diseases or toxic fungi – through a simple colour change on [ ... ]

A new system that allow food crops to be irrigated with seawater is being trialled by the University of Surrey in the UK offering a potential miracle for Kenyan coastal farmers grappling with a scarci [ ... ]

A new anti fake seed agency has been launched in Nairobi to step up the fight against counterfeit seeds, which are hampering yields for farmers across East Africa, by applying stringent seed regulatio [ ... ]

A new machine has come onto the market to aide coffee farmers in the laborious process of pulping coffee, at a time when the international coffee market is delivering surging demand and prices. The ec [ ... ]

Groundnut farmers in Kieni Constituency of Central Kenya have solved a 60-year setback in groundnut yields thanks to a new variety labeled ICGV 91114 that matures fast and has tripled returns from the [ ... ]

Simple sheets of plastic are providing a cheap alternative to expensive and harmful insecticides in fighting potato weevils, delivering higher yields, and paying extra dividends in environmental and b [ ... ]

A project that combines remote satellite imagery and the collection of thousands of soil samples from across Africa has been launched to create an online soil map to help thousands of farmers struggli [ ... ]

Farmers in coffee-growing Kericho area are growing bananas with coffee, in a practice now been hailed by scientists as key to protecting coffee from climate change, and raising coffee yields, at a tim [ ... ]

Farmers have discovered a 'secret' way of fending off predators that had taking out up to 40 per cent of some livestocks, and swathes of crops. The secret is lion dung, which gives off a smell so pung [ ... ]

A contraption invented by a local agricultural economist is using mirrors to concentrate the sun onto soils to clean out pathogens and diseases and end the practice of soil roasting, which is destroyi [ ... ]

Some 20,000 smallholder farmers mostly in Western and Rift Valley province of Kenya have recorded 44 to 120 per cent increases in sorghum and millet yields on the most infertile soils in SubSaharan Af [ ... ]

A new funding scheme is helping farmers buy metal silos to store grain in a way that is protected from attack by weevils and other pests, and is also halving the incidence of aflatoxins. In Kenya, and [ ... ]

A colony of new super-weevils released by the UK environment agency to reduce invasive water weeds has delivered near-complete success in clearing the country’s waterways, and offered new hope of a  [ ... ]

The rise in temperatures due to climate change is leading to the proliferation of the coffee berry borer, one of the crop's most devastating pests, leading to losses in coffee production at a time whe [ ... ]

The Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) is developing new drought-tolerant bean varieties with higher yields and greater nutrition with a view to supplying Kenya’s canning industry which si [ ... ]

A pilot project in Sabasaba is breaking ground that could eventually reposition more than 400,000 smallholder banana farmers in Kenya, currently tied to highly volatile banana prices and often meager  [ ... ]

Scientists in Kenya have made a breakthrough in the war on tsetse fly by identifying which animals the fly feeds on, in research designed to support strategies to break the fly’s life cycle and stop [ ... ]

In a drive to preserve surplus produce, farmers in Murang’a District have assembled a locally made solar dryer shaped like a polythene dome that is delivering a value added, year-round market for th [ ... ]

In 2008, Isaac Ochieng Okwangi from Nyangera, Siaya District harvested just two 90kg bags of maize from his one and a half acre maize plot. On the same piece of land today, 29-year-old Ochieng gets ar [ ... ]

Domestic and industrial effluent combined with human wastes in the urban watercourses of Nairobi are widely perceived as the causes of stench and disease, but not so for the thousands of urban farmers [ ... ]

Before 54-year-old Samuel Maingi, a farmer from Mwala in Eastern Kenya, began rain water harvesting, he used to get one harvest of horticultural crops per year. Now, he gets three or more consistent  [ ... ]

Over 10,000 maize farmers in Embu, Meru and Tharaka Nithi are earning more than twice what they used to, after gaining a direct market to industrial processors. The farmers, who used to sell maize ind [ ... ]

A new insurance scheme for farmers, called ‘Kilimo Salama’, offering compensation for crop failure for the payment of an extra 5 per cent on the cost of seeds, fertilisers and inputs, has seen 11, [ ... ]

Flower farms, Kenya Wildlife Service, and even one honey farmer are now queuing to buy plastic fencing poles that are being made from waste, but which last for 50 years compared to an average 5 years  [ ... ]

Kencall, which has led the way in offering telephone-based customer services for other businesses, has now moved to launch its own call service, “Huduma kwa Wakulima,” as a helpline for small-scal [ ... ]

The more than 100,000 Kenyan farmers grappling with locusts that have been blamed for destroying thousands of tonnes of farm crops have now been pointed to a simple and cheap solution by a survey that [ ... ]

Farmers in Marsabit are paying a heavy price for innovation following this season’s efforts to equip them with new, higher yielding maize seeds. It was not the first time the seeds had been distribu [ ... ]

Pineapple farmers in Kenya are set to benefit from a new technology being trialed in the country that protects pineapples from heat stress and sun damage responsible for 30-50 per cent of crop losses. [ ... ]

A project to leverage the untapped potential of sweet potato to
improve the incomes and nutrition of farming families in sub-Saharan
Africa, has surpassed the ten-year target it set itself in just its [ ... ]

A project to leverage the untapped potential of sweet potato to
improve the incomes and nutrition of farming families in sub-Saharan
Africa, has surpassed the ten-year target it set itself in just its [ ... ]

Researchers and agricultural institutions are raising the alarm on a cassava disease they say is approaching epidemic proportions and now poses a food security threat to the over 200 million people in [ ... ]

A single masters degree in agricultural engineering has been the spark that has transformed the fortunes of a community of farmers in Mukurweini by turning a near-extinct groundnut, set aside decades  [ ... ]

Rice farmers in Yala swamp in Siaya have cut their losses of rice to post-harvest damage by as much as 40 per cent, by using candles to create an airless vacumn for storing the rice seeds for their ne [ ... ]

Kenyan farmers are among more than 15,000 potato farmers in East Africa set to benefit from a fast-track potato seed strategy that seeks to increase potato yields by 20 per cent on limited land, resto [ ... ]

A graduate has invented a way of eliminating weevils by using maize cobs to kill a pest blamed for over 60 per cent of crop losses after harvesting. His solution is now being adopted rapidly across th [ ... ]

A group of farmers in Gatanga have found a way to produce local fertilizer that is delivering a much cheaper and more effective alternative to synthetic fertliser and a new business opportunity at gra [ ... ]

Set up two years ago in Kenya to assist farmers in identifying the diseases that ail their crops and offer immediate interventions, plant clinics have since moved to take a bigger role of surveillance [ ... ]

A group of farmers assisted by scientists are now courting certain parasites and insects on their farms to act as natural enemies to other plant threatening parasites, in a model described as ‘sendi [ ... ]

Ongoing poor yields has pushed scientists and farmers together to accelerate the uptake of grafting as a permanent solution. Grafting involves picking one part of a plant that is inferior and replacin [ ... ]

Kenyan flower farms, now adopting new waste water management technology to cut down on the pollution of water bodies and conserve water by 30 to 50 per cent, are reporting the environmental measures h [ ... ]

An early warning system using traps that fake the smell of mating female moths has delivered a breakthrough in countering the spread of the armyworm, which can move into an area and devastate entire c [ ... ]

A pioneering group of farmers in Marsabit is belatedly turning to ways of harvesting water and securing water supplies after watching a high-investment, high-return project die through water shortages [ ... ]

The Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) has bred two new climbing bean varieties that are higher yielding, disease tolerant and use far less farming space than the conventional bush bean vari [ ... ]

The Kenya Forestry Service has drawn a growing pool of Kitale farmers, now 150, to a new field school concept that is working with each farmer for a full year raising yields through adding trees, shru [ ... ]

Researchers are urging coffee farmers to mulch and irrigate their crops to address rising levels of the plant pest thrips, last witnessed at current levels some 15 years ago and now set to knock out a [ ... ]

Agropreneurs are halving irrigation and getting better results during dry spells thanks to a new product that is creating water storage sacks at the roots of crops. The water polymer, known as Belsap [ ... ]

Seed scientists are hailing their next release of new finger millet varieties, due early next year, as a project that will impact some 10 million people in Kenya by improving the yields and incom [ ... ]

A new plant tonic being trialed in Kenya is promising enhanced crop productivity even in compromised soil conditions, following from trials in Ghana that returned resounding success. NutraGreen TM is  [ ... ]

Farmers in central Kenya are raising large investments to buy into solar powered irrigation systems that are then cost-free, saving them thousands of shillings a month and making their water go much f [ ... ]

More than 500 farmers in Kilifi and Malindi are growing five new commercial mango breeds with yield potential of 10 times conventional varieties, as part of a drive to take the returns from local mang [ ... ]

Kenyan trials have been launched of a biological control against the fungus that causes aflatoxin, infecting maize and groundnut crops post-harvest and making them inedible. In Nigeria, where the tria [ ... ]

A biological method to control the voracious and dreaded spider mites in rose flowers is repositioning East African flower firms, which were previously struggling to meet the strict quality standards  [ ... ]

A tree that is almost perfectly complementary to crop growing, doubles and even triples crop yields, and thrives in dry areas, is being rolled out across Kenya in a drive to use the ‘fertiliser tree [ ... ]

Gino Martins’ research, proving a powerful link between Kenyan food security and the country’s insect population, recently catapulted him to international fame as the recipient of a prestigious £ [ ... ]

An international organisation is funding a breeding research program to deliver quality seeds to 400,000 local farmers, in a drive to get farmers to switch from retained seeds, which are often halving [ ... ]

Concerted efforts between farmers and research institutions to keep the deadly striga weed at bay are finally paying off, after decades of disappointments and huge losses by farmers. Statistics indica [ ... ]

Scientists are working with farmers to help them reclaim sloping land ruined by heavy rainfall, through terracing and planting extra crops that hold the soil in place, in a drive they say repairs soil [ ... ]

A group of Farmers in Eastern Kenya, pushed by the ever increasing price of pesticides, have developed home-made pest control solutions with impressive results., a practice they are teaching fellow fa [ ... ]

Scientists, borrowing from the ancient Amazonians, have come up with a way to end smallholders’ dependency on fertilizers forever, by converting waste into charcoal that doubles yields and holds car [ ... ]

Some 5,000 Kenyan farmers have benefited from a new scheme that has launched plant clinics countrywide, providing free tests and diagnosis for farmers to fend off pests and disease.

To counter the problem of the country’s infertile soil - depleted over years by poor farming techniques and now yielding one-third of the global average - the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute i [ ... ]

A four-year soil fertility project rolled out last year has raised the net returns for participating farmers in Western Kenya ten-fold in its first year through introducing state-of-the-art legume and [ ... ]

The cost and scarcity of high quality seeds in Kenya has held back many smallholders in achieving the highest yields, as well as limiting them in trying out new crops. But the first moves by small, lo [ ... ]

Nairobi’s slum dwellers suffer some of the poorest nutrition of all Kenyans according to recent surveys by the World Food Programme, eking out an existence on typically less than a dollar a day, and [ ... ]

The Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) has introduced a new farming technology for breeding multiple disease free potato tubers in a bid to achieve a widespread take-off in productivity for  [ ... ]