At least 600 farmers from Kakamega are set to get free dairy cows in the next one year, thanks to a partnership between their county government and sponsors from the Netherlands. Smallholder farmers in Kakamega contribute 99 per cent of the milk produced in the county. Inspiration Kakamega County last year produced about 20m litres […]
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Clever farmers are doing an evaluation of the year 2015, noting the mistakes they made, while celebrating their major successes. And as you plan your farming calendar in 2016, our in-house agronomist Elijah Lemomo, advises that you should make it the year of short-season crops. Over the next one month, starting December 17, agronomist Lemomo
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Clever farmers are doing an evaluation of the year 2015, noting the mistakes they made, while celebrating their major successes. And as you plan your farming calendar in 2016, our in-house agronomist Elijah Lemomo, advises that you should make it the year of short-season crops. Over the next one month, starting December 17, agronomist Lemomo
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Clever farmers are doing an evaluation of the year 2015, noting the mistakes they made, while celebrating their major successes. And as you plan your farming calendar in 2016, our in-house agronomist Elijah Lemomo, advises that you should make it the year of short-season crops. Over the next one month, starting December 17, agronomist Lemomo
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Clever farmers are doing an evaluation of the year 2015, noting the mistakes they made, while celebrating their major successes. And as you plan your farming calendar in 2016, our in-house agronomist Elijah Lemomo, advices that you should make it the year of short-season crops. Over the next one month, starting December 17, agronomist Lemomo
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In response to an article we published on the great market potential of chilli farming, one of our readers Nicholas Muthee requested for an approximation of the input costs for one acre of crop, which could yield up to 10tonnes of Cayenne pepper that has a market value of Sh1m, if sold to Lagran Group,
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A fresh produce exhibition that had been planned for April in Nairobi has been put off by a year owing to overwhelming interest by exhibitors. The inaugural Fresh Produce Africa (FPA) trade expo for the international vegetable and fruit industries will now take place from Wednesday April 26 to Friday April 28 in 2017 at
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Kenyan pastoralists in arid and semi arid areas are expected to be food secure in the January 2016 due to end-year El-Nino rains, an international agency’s famine arm has said. USAID’s Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) says seasonal recovery of rangeland resources will increase pastures for livestock of the the people in drier areas. FEWS NET
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A campaign dubbed Send a Cow, by UK charity Planting Hope is looking at ways of ensuring that as many farmers as possible in Africa get out of the poverty trap, starting this Christmas. Send a Cow is the largest fundraising campaign run by the international development charity since it was founded by a group
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Daniel Kimaru, a 60-year-old pensioner thought of selling his two-hectare farm in Nyahururu in 2011 after registering poor maize yields for four seasons in a row despite dedicating all the available resources. In July the same year, his long time friend introduced him to Kitil Farm, a model bamboo breeding center in Isinya, which produces and sells millions of
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