August 2016

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Prisons officer helps farmers set up integrated backyard fishponds

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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Planting plan and market contact helping farmer in selling produce

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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Farmer helping others get clean high yielding sweet potatoes

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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Simple, cheap aflatoxin testing kit launched for farmers

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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New disease tolerant tomato can earn over Sh2million in 75 days

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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