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Farmer’s 7-year labour tripling potato grower profits
The frustrations of losing out to middlemen and struggling to get quality seed pushed Chris Gasperi into a sleepless seven-and-a-half-year journey to produce a full potato-farmer kit from seed to...
The Indian medicine fertiliser doubling flower companies’ exports
By Francis Ndirangu Flower companies are abandoning costly chemical fertilisers for homemade liquid organic manure, doubling their production by reducing the acidity of their dying soils caused by decades of...
Chilli buyer seeks farmer supplies as shortage bites
A chili buyer is recruiting tens of farmers offering them a ready market for their dried red chilis starting this week as the produce’s local buyers struggle to get the...
Sunflower growers use nets and guardian eagles to keep field clearing birds away
Onion net bags and watchdog eagles are assuring smallholder sunflower farmers of 100 per cent harvests who previously shared half their seeds with birds. After having almost half of his...
Youth double coffee earnings by brewing their cherries
A youth farmer group is making more than double the earnings of over 400,000 co-op farmers by processing their own beans to meet Kenyans’ growing love of a finely brewed...
Kenyan farmers cross into Tanzania in search of milk adding tree
Kenyan farmers and animal fodder sellers are crossing borders into Tanzania in search of the milk-boosting calliandra. Calliandra, a fodder tree ready for harvest in half a year, is highly...
Kenya’s forgotten drought miracle answer to wheat & animal feed shortages
The drought-tolerant and cheap-to-grow triticale grain can be Kenya’s answer to slashing its Sh74.5 billion wheat import bill and 33 million metric tonne animal feed deficit. Despite having almost no...
Roundup of agriculture jobs in Kenya– 13th January, 2025
From farm manager positions in Kisumu, various positions at AAA Growers, and a number of Sales Agent positions across the country, these are our 50 best picks for open agriculture...
Salt-loving crops double yields of farmers cursed with salty water
Farmers in areas with salty water and/or soils can maximise their harvest and get twice as much switching from regular crops and picking salt-tolerant crops. In experiments done by farmers...
Weed-reading: Kilifi farmers improve yields by learning from invaders
Kilifi farmers have found that weeds, like crops, each prefer different types of soils, meaning they can read the weeds in knowing how and where to plant to get the
Weatherman warns of a dry 2025 plagued by rain failure
Weather researchers are warning Kenya faces a hot and dry 2025 with rainfall predicted to be at least 20 per cent lower than normal. January – February – March 2025
Muranga gives extension to 12,000 farmers a year by funding agripreneurs
Muranga has trained and funded 60 agripreneurs, with capital of Sh150,000 to start their own agribusinesses providing new extension services that have reached over 12.000 additional farmers a year. The
Livestock Bill chases bee farmers: register or jail
The currently unregulated beekeeping sector is in for a major shakeup as the government pushes mandatory registration for anyone who sets up a beehive, failure to which they face a
Bishop beats drought in Yatta with ‘brain-not-rain’ digging drive
Over 6,000 farmers in the semi-arid Yatta Constituency have used water pans to carry their staple crops to full maturity during the renewed drought and grow additional, high-earning vegetables to
Mchunga weed stops Kenya’s biggest killer cancer
By Henry Mang’eni Researchers have found the bitter lettuce weed, known as Mchunga in Swahili, can stop the growth of cervical cancer, the leading cause of cancer deaths in Kenya.
Ugandan farmers create fertiliser from bamboo smoke
Ugandan farmers are turning bamboo smoke into an organic fertiliser and pesticide that boosts vegetable yields and replaces expensive pesticides. Bamboo liquid smoke diluted in water has been shown to
Repellent plants keep snakes 300 metres from farms and homes
Growing plants that snakes hate will keep snakes that kill 4,000 Kenyans annually 300 metres from farms and homes, according to scientists. In a study published in the International Journal
The land I knew is gone: Kilifi elder relates the everyday destruction caused by climate change
By Henry Mang’eni Joseph Chiwai, 72, has lived a lifetime witnessing his once-thriving homeland turn into a barren landscape. From fertile soils and lush vegetation to erratic rainfall and bare
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