Poultry farmers in Kenya can now use oregano plant to prevent and cure coccidiosis, one of the deadliest poultry diseases estimated to be costing farmers across the world up to $800m every year. The recent study the Meriden Animal Health which shows that plant has antimicrobial and antioxidant properties of the pure oil of oregano […]
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Fruit farmers in Kenya can earn more than 10 times, reduce post harvest loses and benefit from existing high market demand for dry fruits by simply drying their yields using low cost energy sources like solar and direct sunlight. Azuri Health, a Nairobi based company dealing in dried fruits and vegetables, is buying a kilo
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A university graduate has developed a cost effective bicycle-pedal-powered water pump for collecting water for small-scale irrigation and other domestic farms uses. Antony Kabui developed the equipment to support farmers who do not have electricity or cannot afford oil to run water pumps to meet farm needs. He says it is tedious, costly, and time
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OLX, an online selling platform has created an agricultural segment, offering internet savvy farmers a dedicated site to sell their produce. This is good news especially to small holder farmers who are cut from market by high transportation costs and poor infrastructure, hence incurring huge post harvest loses.Lack of market also exposes them to exploitative
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C Small-scale farmers can save on cost of fertilisers as they increase appeal of products using worms to generate manure for their crops. Increasing use of inorganic fertilisers is not only burdensome to farmers every planting and top dressing season, but also soaring acidic levels in the soils are lowering productivity. Vermiculture, which involves use
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Dubai-founded international fruits company, Joz Group, is set to launch its first factory in Machakos County in a bid to offer ready market to farmers who sell their produce at throw-away prices wherever the supply is higher than consumption.Governor Alfred Mutua, who is on an official business-sourcing trip in the Middle East state, sealed the
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C A rival farmers association has defended Uganda’s Bidco cooking oil processing project against accusations of land grabbing and deforestation. Kalangala Oil Palm Growers Association (KOPGA) has termed allegation by Bugala Farmers Association (BFA) against Bidco’s Palm Uganda Limited as non-factual and misleading. KOPGA chairman Martin Lugambwa said that BFA is not a registered organisation that can
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The fertilizer distribution business in Kenya is being operated by cartel networks, which, coupling with poor roads, have made it difficult for new products to reach the farmers in good time. Yara, the Norwegian brand that has distributorships in most of the world, has been in Kenya for two decades, but still has not managed
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A mention of Mpeketoni Town, flashes images terror and lifelessness in many Kenyans, and indeed the world. But one farmer, Julius Kimotho is making at least Sh320,000 from his groundnuts from his farm in this evergreen area, which he describes as a ‘town in the garden’. In 2011, Kimotho grew a handful of groundnuts he
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Farmers in Kenya can now use Tephrosia Vogellii, also known as fishbone poison, to effectively kill pests on their livestock, as confirmed by a recent study by FAO, which shows that a solution made from the plant’s leaves has the capacity to counter the issue of tick resistance arising from continuous use of a single
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