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 become a model to others as thousands of customers flock to his farm for quality honey. Gabriel Mbatha Nzomo locally known as Alex is a dedicated dry-land farmer. From his […]
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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 Africa orphan crops academy, in a bid to create better and high quality seeds for a crop that has been faced by extinction. The baobab tree, which is found across
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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 with more farmers embracing the practice that is not only earning them a decent income but assisting bridge the biting decent housing short fall in the area. Out of the
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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 toil story of 11 young people who two years ago had the will but no means to actualize the will. The members aged between 22 and 40 years belonging to
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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 exchange and created job. Mike King’ori a director in a family owned flower exporting company knows too well how the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has changed fortunes for
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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 story of a group trying to reverse the devastating effects of a toxic fungus that claimed their parents’ lives. The Eastern area of Kenya is one of the driest in
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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 plant the crop in time using superior quality thanks to a rapid seed multiplication system. Kabondo’s sweetpotato farmers plant at the beginning of the rainy season. At this time, large
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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 when a glut in the international market coupled with adverse weather is having a toll on earnings. Those trained are already recording 36 percent higher yields than those who have
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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 subsistence to money oriented agriculture. Waithera Kimotho beams as she shows off her farm, irrigated with her family’s new water pump. The mother of seven kids no longer has to
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A new method of drying fish using low cost racks is reducing drying time from three days to eight hours while doubling market prices among East African fishing communities. Once fish is harvested, the most fishermen dry them on the ground, and therein lies the problem. Besides being easy pickings for animals, the fish stocks
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