Lack of capital to acquire modern beehives was a blessing in disguise for Tom Okello who hatched the idea of creating an improved version with palm trees, which has now grown into an empire housing 170 beehives and earning him Sh3million yearly. Palm tree known as Tugu by the Lang’o community in Uganda grows freely […]
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An innovative group has introduced mobile video lessons targeting Uganda farmers to bridge the acute undersupply of extension officers and boost yields. Strained by the need to better farmers livelihoods Sasakawa Global 2000 has realized the need to embrace technology in their quest to positively impact on the rural population. Daniel Olo a program officer
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Rows of succulent tomatoes sit comfortably next to nicely tended watermelons. Adjacent to them, tangerine fruit trees sways in harmony with orange ones in a three farm whose high yields are not the only marvel but the man behind it; Josphat Kimathi Limbitu is a blind man from Imenti North district who has defied his
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Farmers who have struggled with the poisonous and invasive Sodom Apple responsible for deaths of their livestock can now breathe easy after it was established that the wild animals’ appetite for the plant is helping tame its spread. The plant has overrun vast swaths of Kenyan and East African pasture land with Kenyan government discussing
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Kenya is among Sub Saharan African countries set to benefit from a mobile phone project that will allow users access to nutritional and health information in a bid to tackle malnutrition at a time when statistics show nutritional issues have hit Kenya the hardest with 35 percent of children under five years being stunted. Dubbed
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Peter Kanyagia a former accountant is earning upto Sh100,000 every three month rearing and breeding red worms which are in demand by farmers in organic farming who use them to create manure used to grow organic crops. The process of putting worms in the farms dubbed vermicomposting involves placing worms in beds with the worms
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The increasing degradation of earth’s peak soil through over cultivation and nutrient mining is putting pressure on food production with researchers warning that by 2050 agricultural production will dip by upto 30 percent even as population is expected to hit 9.6 billion, up from 7.2 billion last year. This is already becoming evident in Sub
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Organic fruits, vegetables and cereals are up to 69 percent more nutritious than conventionally grown ones according to a study, the first most comprehensive one on nutritional difference between the two. The report is already inviting a cocktail of reactions among proponents and opponents of organic farming with Kenyan researchers welcoming it as a sure
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A combination of farming practices in areas where tired soils have depressed yields is reversing the sorry state of affairs with intercropping, conservation agriculture among others now more than doubling yields. In Siaya and Bungoma counties, farmers have been waking up to barren lands with virtually all forms of conventional fertilizers having failed to reverse
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A solution that recycles pigs’ faecal waste and turns sawdust into a rich source of carbohydrates for pigs to consume is assisting pig farmers in Uganda cut on feed cost by upto 30 percent coming at a time when the price of feeds has faced north in recent years. The solution commonly known as IMO
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