Farmers and vendors can earn more than Sh400 by minting the juice from a single sugarcane with the help of a rechargeable battery powered extractor machine. Earning about Sh400 from a single sugar cane is more than six times higher than what is realised by directly selling it in pieces. A nine-feet sugar cane can …
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A Kenya Prisons Service officer is helping farmers set up quality integrated backyard fish ponds for high yields at reduced production costs due to recycling of rabbits and chickens wastes into food for fish. Jared Mokaya, who is attached to Nakuru Prison Service station, has been helping farmers constructing the ponds in Kakamga and Nakuru …
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Potato farmers without Internet-enabled telephone gadgets can now access direct market for their produce after online selling platform, OLX, launched a short message service linkage platform. Speaking during the launch of the service, Kenya OLX Manager Peter Ndiang’ui said more than 9,000 farmers are set to benefit from high prices of selling their produce directly …
Farmers can make up to Sh16,000 net profit in seven months from one pig by following a simple commercial exclusive feeding routine and other management practices. Exclusive use of commerce feeds gives uniform growth and maturity of the pigs, therefore, making it possible to plan when to breed for delivery to the market. One Kakamega …
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Timing of planting season and establishing market networks are helping a Kiambu County farmer in selling his produce with little competition to earn profits. Patrick Njenga, who has for more than 10 years specialised in short season vegetable and Irish potato production, said going against other farmer’s growing calendar and keeping market contacts have helped …
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A Nyamira County farmer, who started a sweetpotato nursery bed propagation programme with an international organisation, is helping other agripreneurs access high yielding disease-free planting materials. James Mochere raises the orange-fleshed sweet-potatoes (OFSP), which he got from the International Potato Centre (CIP) in 2013, in nursery beds. His move was to help sweetpotato farmers who …
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An international agricultural research organisation has launched a cheap and easy to use device for detection of aflatoxin in harvests of cereals and seeds. International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) scientist Anitha Seetha said the kit does not require technical skills in testing or interpreting outcomes, therefore, appropriate for every farmer. Currently, aflatoxin …
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A Nairobi-based international agribusiness firm has released an outdoor hybrid tomato variety resistant to a number of deadly diseases and can fetch at least Sh3 million for farmers per acre. Johnstone Makau from Amiran Kenya said besides maturing in 75 days after transplanting, Shanty Improved variety can be sold for three weeks without going bad …
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Urban dwellers and other farmers, who have limited space, can grow high yielding and quick maturing aerial yams in soil-filled containers, which form fruit-like tubers among the leaves. Unlike other yams whose tubers must be buried in the soil, these varieties only require the soil for nutrients. Murang’a County farmer who introduced the yams more …
Farmers who follow guidelines in nursery bed establishment may save up on losses between 30 per cent and 40 per which normally result from poor seed germination. Failing to meet more than 95 per cent, for instance in onion farming on an acre, leads to extra costs in buying more seeds to fill remaining space …
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