A new dairy credit financing model is giving anyone interested in dairy farming easier ways of owning a cow, a move that has gained impressive traction in the country on the surging interest in commercial agribusiness. Dubbed Dairy Loan and offered by Kenya Women Finance Trust Deposit Taking Microfinance (KWFTDTM), the loan targets those already […]
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Scientists have identified and published the genetic traits of African rice and wild tomatoes which they say is important in understanding their high yielding and drought resistant characteristics. This will offer new grounds for breeding new high yielding varieties at a time when population is projected to increase from 7.1 billion currently to over 9
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A decision by a group of young men to dump their small businesses that used to earn them at least Sh500 each a day and delve into tomato farming is finally paying off now seeing them earn Sh2700 each daily on growing demand for their produce by major hotels. Members of the Young Fathers Group
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A project that is using Moringa oleifera commonly referred to as miracle tree to replenish soil nutrients while improving food security is paying off with households producing their own oils and taking the stress out of the forests. Between deforestation and short-term farming tactics that don’t replenish soil nutrients, farmland in Kenya has been severely
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Kathuiria Poverty Reduction Group, a Farmer Voice Radio (FVR) Listener Club based in the Central Province of Kenya, has enthusiastically followed FVR broadcasts on Coro FM since they first heard them. Members of the group have taken up the challenge of putting FVR radio agricultural information into practice. For example, FVR programs on upland growing
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Kenya flowers are headed for good times with the introduction of a new crop protection chemical that controls plant eating pests within hours and continues to protect the flowers for a further one to two weeks. Dubbed Delegate™ 250WG, the new chemical by Dow AgroSciences contains the active ingredient, spinetoram, which won the U.S. Environmental
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Farm Capital Africa, an investment platform for sustainable agribusiness activities, is redesigning lending culture in the continent, thanks to its unique model where it offers its clients both capital and technical expertise to boost their agricultural activities, share profit and losses before pulling out after a period of at most two years. The model which
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The soaring demand for a naturally occurring component from the barks of the Acacia tree, which is used across pharmaceuticals, drugs, and photography industries, has given pastoralists from the Karamoja region of Uganda a new lifeline by collecting and selling it, at a time when climate change is wiping out almost all their flocks. According
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A radio program has been the spark that has changed the fortunes of a Western Kenya farmer who has doubled yields through crop rotation. Over the years, Agnes Khisa from Bungoma, Western Kenya, grew maize on her two- acre plot with the same yields. Then she listened to a Farmer Voice Radio program on crop
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Behind overlapping shanties and overcrowded streets is a novel roof gardening project in the Mathare slums of Nairobi that has been feeding over 109 households while providing income to slum women struggling to make ends meet at a time when food prices especially in urban areas have been on an unprecedented highs. Such gardens are
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