Growing flowers around houses, verandas and other open spaces available in homesteads is normal for both urban and rural areas. But Jeff Oburu, who opted to grow pumpkin and vine spinach, found it rewarding in including these vegetables among the ornamental plants surrounding his four-cornered house. Risosa and enderema, as the traditional vegetables are called …
Tobacco farmers in Kenya are likely to earn up to Sh800 if they import their yield China, India, Argentina, Chile or Taiwan. This will see farmers earn up to 4 times the current rate in Kenya where a British American Tobacco ( BAT) is paid Sh220 per kilo of grade A tobacco. Although China is …
Tobacco farmers in Kenya to earn up to 4 times in export market Read More »
As one enters the home of Jesse Kiorio, his wife Kezia is singing in Kikuyu while tendering to rare sweet bloody and yummy maroon ‘flowers’ surrounding their houses. A closer look reveals they are tree tomatoes, which she has grown outside her shamba after realizing that they do not need much lower space is they …
Mr. Jesse Kioria tending to his pepino fruits Renowned Prof Wangari Maathai became an environmental global icon for daring into places where other people were running away from. A few hundreds of metres from the home of this global environmental ‘humming bird’ at Tetu in Nyeri County, is a couple that is harvesting more than …
Less than half acre ‘wonder’ fruit earns farmer over Sh60,000 monthly Read More »
Accurate pregnancy testing kit may soon be a reality for Kenyan farmers following the successful trial of a diagnostic gadget in Ethiopia by International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). The Hormonost Micro-Lab farmertest can detect successful artificial insemination (AI) in 20 days, allowing for farmers to prepare for another service if the first one failed. This …
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The Kenya Highland Seed company has launched a fast maturing, high value and diseases resistant sweet pepper variety capable of producing 8 tonnes per acre in just 75 days. Normally, sweet or bell pepper has an average yield of 5-6 tonnes per acre and take at least 90 days to mature. Dubbed Maxibell, this new …
Bell pepper farmers to make Sh1.3m per acre in 75days with a new variety Read More »
Boma Rhode hay farmers in Kenya can now earn both from the hay and seeds, earning almost sh100,000 per acre, thanks to the Kenya Seed Company that is currently buying those seeds for Sh333 per kilo. Returns Normally, only 5 kilo of seed is needed per acre with approximated yield of 400 bales. Farmers are …
Beef farmers, more-so those in dry areas, can earn more than half a million shillings from one cow in two years with the highly-harsh climate tolerate Charolais livestock breed. Charolais, which originates from France, has a high conversion rate of feeds into muscles is highly efficient despite their quality. Livestock farmers in the country, especially …
Charolais can earn farmers over Sh0.5 million in two years Read More »
One tomato farmer who made losses to poor market is connecting peasants to online buyers on an e-commerce marketplace,Kitchen Soko, which he pioneered. Winston Wachaga, who started the Internet-based market solution less than a year ago, is linking more than 80 farmers to Nairobi middle-class consumers. Consumers place online orders in advance and Kitchen Soko …
Kitchen Soko linking farmers to Nairobi consumers Read More »
With only to cows, a farmer who installed a biomass digester two years, is saving more than Sh30,000 yearly spent on buying cooking gas and ‘slaughtering’ trees for firewood. By the time Daudi Orina installed a biogas digester in his Nyamira County farm a 13kg cooking gas had soured to Sh3,500. Use of firewood meant …
Two cows’ dung saves farmer thousands of shillings in cooking gas Read More »
