A farmer in Nyamira County farmer has increased his milk yield three-fold by crossbreeding local and exotic cattle after shunning tea farming, which is the dominant activity in his Nyankongo Village. Because he never had enough capital to buy high milk yielding exotic breeds at once, Patrick Nyauma decided to uplift his local animals through […]
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Stranded chili farmers now have a sure market after a processing company announced that is looking for a steady supply of at least two tonnes of the produce per week. Golden Solutions field officer Erick Wachira says the company is moving round the country collecting bird’s-eye chillies for its processing plant in Nairobi. “We are
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Farmers selling passion fruits at throw-away prices can earn more than what the common market is offering by delivering their produce to a Kiambu County suppliers who is looking for up to 1,000 kg per week. For far-flung farmers, the Peris Kiarii makes plans of ferrying the produce after agreeing with the supplier to Limuru.
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With as little as Sh60 per growing season, greenhouse horticultural farmers can save up to 80 per cent of their produce lost to aphids and other small pests using biological remedies. The biological, environmental friendly methods also reduce to zero the chemical component of the produce, a factor that increases likeability in major export markets
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A vegetable farmer has abandoned one time season growing of spinach and adopted propagation of the crop at different times as a way of constantly earning revenue. Besides, the farmer has grown other crops on his half-an-acre piece as an ‘insurance scheme’ against any catastrophe that may befall the spinach. Nathan Mala says spinach farming
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One small-scale tomato farmer, who repeatedly suffered losses due to deadly soil-borne diseases and pests, is using artificial soil to raise healthy seedlings for greenhouse propagation. Nathan Mala incurred expenses in applying chemicals to control nematode pests, bacterial wilt diseases, among other deadly infections, which can destroy up to 100 per cent of the crop.
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Capsicum is one of the most favourite ingredients in urban cooking, but many farmers prefer green and red types to yellow variety because of the ready market in the most middle class households. This has gradually created short supply in demand of the yellow variety, more-so, in the up market consumers, who are parting with
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Grain farmers who have been losing up 30 percent of their yield to post harvest insecticides in Kenya can now rest easy, thanks to the successful test achieved by the first ever insecticide incorporated storage bags that completely curb pest infestation. Dubbed Zero Fly, these unique storage bags has an active deltamethrin, a FAO and
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Preparation of composite manure helps in recycling organic matter into cheap non-chemical fertiliser for farmers. Conventionally, composite manure is applied by placing lumps of the decayed matter around stems of crops or broadcast in the field prior to planting. But farmers can achieve faster results by minting out manure ‘composite tea’ from the manure before
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More than 35,000 farmers in Nyanza and Western Kenya are harvesting double yields per acre after adopting the high producing orange-fleshed sweet potato varieties from a research organization, International Potato Center (CIP). Demand for the Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP) is turning the food into a cash crop for the farmers in at least five counties as
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