Kenyans’ rising demand for now 38m cubic meters of timber a year, coupled with the low levels of local supply and soaring import prices, is now causing an acute timber shortage. Statistics now indicate that Kenya spends over Sh3billion yearly on timber imports compared with Sh5million in 1999, to meet rising demand that now stands […]
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A 70-year-old farmer from Kitale has lifted his earnings from Sh1,000 a month to Sh50,000 by selling his only dairy cow to buy a water pump. Maurice owns a small piece of land in Eldoret. Upon the demise of his father Maurice inherited the family land together with a loan his father had taken. Unable
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A farmer in Nakuru has embraced use of non conventional methods of growing crops from farm to folk and is recording double the yields than he traditionally did on the same piece of land even as his counterparts hang on to age old methods that have left them with little or no yields. Benson Kinyua
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Kenyan farmers are among thousands in Africa set to resume export of banana, avocado and citrus to Europe and South Africa after the countries lifted bans blamed on an invasive fruit fly and which has cost Kenya millions in export bans. Several researchers from Africa and across the globe which conducted studies on the presence
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Traditionally used for pooling resources and assisting members in social support, Kenya’s savings groups fondly referred to as chamas have now moved to the farms assisting members reduce cost of labour by upto 40 percent. Various savings groups mostly led by women have now moved to the farms assisting fellow members in the entire food
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Traditionally used for pooling resources for social support, chama savings groups in western Kenya have now moved to pooling labour on farms, cutting labour costs by up to 40 per cent. Various savings groups mostly led by women have now moved to the farms assisting fellow members in the entire food production process from land
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World Bank has released a manual that assists governments and institutions coordinate and communicate activities on disaster and climate change as the effects of change in weather hits home. Dubbed Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI) Field Guide, and developed by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)—a World Bank managed partnership—the Guide
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ICIPE scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding the life cycle of the tsetse fly, raising hopes of biologically eliminating a fly that kills cattle worth $4bn a year in Sub Saharan Africa. The discovery is good news to Kenya which has areas like the Coast chocking under tsetse fly attack. The Ministry of Agriculture
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Eating less beef and reducing food waste can reduce greenhouse gases responsible for climate change by as much as 50- 90 percent by 2030, the equivalent of removing all cars in the world, while maintaining food security a new study says. The news resonate well particularly with Sub-Saharan African countries where science estimates the average
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Maize and sorghum farmers in western Kenya through the guidance from researchers are using organic traps to rid their crops of pests and the lethal witch weed which have robbed them off their yield further fanning the hunger cycle. Through the organic control method dubbed Push and Pull technology the farmers are not only tripling
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