Bees create sweet times for semi arid area farmer
A farmer in the arid Matungulu district of Eastern Kenya is shielding himself from dry spells by embracing climate resilient farming like beekeeping and has
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Baobab among first orphaned crops to undergo genetic mapping
Baobab, popularly known as the iconic tree of Africa will be the first of the 100 orphaned crops that will be genetically mapped by the
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Tobacco to bamboo project heralds low cost housing
A project aimed at encouraging farmers to move from the volative tobacco farming and embrace bamboo farming in Nyanza and Western regions is proving successful
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How an idea bloomed into a flower enterprise
Behind the Sh10,000 monthly profit each member of a self help group in Nyeri county earns, and a blooming flower business is the sweat and
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Pact gives Kenyan flower exporters easy US access
A bilateral agreement between Kenya and United States of America to have certain Kenyan goods among them flowers enjoy preferential treatment has doubled sales, foreign
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Fighting aflatoxins an orphan at a time
Behind rows of worn out desks, a feeble table, old tins and a group of 30 youngsters aged between seven and seventeen, is the survival
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Farmers speed sweet potato planting with multiplication system
Sweetpotato farmers in Kabondo area located in Homa Bay County and who produce over 60 percent of the crop to the county are managing to
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Farmer field schools assist farmers modernize tea production
A school without wall programme is training tea farmers how to cushion themselves from weather changes while modernize and diversifying tea production at a time
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Farmers count more yields without fertilizers
A farming method that doesn’t require fertilizer, uses a fraction of water and increases yields two to six times has lifted over 6500 farmers from
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Markets open up to Samburu camel milk
A project that gives women pastoralists market for their camel milk is insulating them during dry times when men migrate with animals in search of
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