An innovative youth organization in Siaya County is easing the pressure on local forests and taming soil degradation with the installation of unique stoves that uses 50 percent less wood than conventional stoves. In Siaya County, over 91 percent of the locals use firewood for cooking and this therefore translates into millions of trees being …
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Kakamega farmers are recording a tripling of yields thanks to an intervention that has made it easy for them to access improved farm inputs at interest free loans. For many years, Farmers from Kakamega County have been engrossed in Sugar cane farming; supplying the many sugar factories littered in the area including the now limping …
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Over 4500 Irish potato farmers from Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo are set to benefit from the newly constructed potato value addition firm in Kisoro which will offer ready market and increased farm gate prices. Kisoro Potato Processing Industry which was set up by a determined Ugandan business man Tom Mugenga is aimed …
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Kenya is among countries that were used to showcase the success of the weather based index insurance as a cheaper and long term solution to food security climate change according to a new report. Launched at the beginning of this year, the report by the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Research Program on …
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A telecentre in Iringa area of Tanzania is connecting tomato farmers in the area with Kenyan buyers while assisting the farmers access real time information on market prices in Nairobi and Mombasa as well as in Zambia. The telecentre, according to the head of the telecentre, is meant to provide information sharing among the tomato …
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The newly introduced tape measure method of measuring cattle weight is facing opposition from most pig value chain actors who claim that the tool is inaccurate and therefore doesn’t enforce transparency. Pooled together under Pig Production and Marketing (PPM), the farmers and traders have voiced their concerns to the researchers who introduced the method claiming …
Wheat farmers in Rift Valley are decrying the growing threat of stem rust that is wiping up to 100 per cent of their yields and thwarting efforts to increase wheat production by attacking even superior wheat varieties. Farmers like Simon Ng’ang’a who have been in wheat production for the last one decade cannot take the …
The plummeting tea prices and the unstable market globally for the traditionally grown green tea, has seen farmers replace it with the superior purple variety, even as regulators warn research is still inadequate on its planting in Kenya. The purple tea is known for its un paralled health attributes, which has attracted a fanatical uptake …
A pig purchase two years ago, has opened up an avalanche of business opportunities for David, a peasant farmer in Mount Elgon who together with his wife are now involved in the business of buying and selling maize. It all started two years ago when they constructed a pig pen and later bought one piglet. …
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Over 100,000 farming households in Kiambu County are set to own their businesses in a model that will involve business oriented training by students of Plymouth University UK in a bid to diversify income generating avenues for farmers. Through a £500,000 grant to the University by Comic Relief, a charity based organization in UK, the …
