Runner beans growing in a farm. A marketer is looking for 12 tonnes of runner beans per month for export from Kenya. PHOTO BY GARDEN ACTION. A horticultural produce marketer is looking for farmers to supply him with at least 12 tonnes per month for export. Dennis Mutwiri said the demand for the less cultivated […]
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A potted pepino melon plant with fruits. A Nairobi agripreneur is selling potted strawberries and pepino melons to prospective urbanite farmers. PHOTO BY Gardens4You. Urbanites, who want to turn towns into vegetable production areas, can do so by buying potted seedlings, which can be placed on any available spaces with sufficient light and waster. Daniel
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PHOTO: A farmer enjoys plucking tea. Marketing companies are flavouring tea to increase its acceptability among the youth, to increase consumption. PHOTO BY JUSTEA. The slowing consumption of tea leading to losses to farmers has been countered by blending and packaging companies through value addition strategy of increasing the market base for the cash crop,
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PHOTO: Farmers harvesting finger-millet in Western Kenya in an undated photo. EABL is looking for at least 30,000 tonnes of millet and sorghum to meet its deficit. PHOTO BY HAILEY TUCKER. Smallholder farmers working in groups have a chance of annually delivering at least 30,000 tonnes sorghum and millet to one of the region’s biggest
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Farmers can separate up to 540kg of gains from chaff per hour at a cost of less than Sh100 using a motorised winnowing machine from Egerton University. The machine consumes one litre of diesel to winnow five to six 90kg bags of grains per hour. This is a relief to farmers, who rely on wind
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Farmers in areas receiving rainfall can incur almost zero irrigation costs by installing gutter-fixed greenhouses from the Vintage Green Limited. This is a new feature not in standard greenhouses. Greenhouse crops are exclusively irrigated, with drip method being the commonest way. The crops are sealed off from direct environmental agents- including rain. That means that
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Farmers can convert deadly carbon monoxide gas into cooking energy while making charcoal from waste wooden pieces for reuse or sale using a stove from the Kenya Industrial Research Development Institute (KIRDI). Carbon monoxide, also known as carbon II oxide, can cause death due to suffocation. The colourless and odourless gas poisons red blood cells
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Farmers can cut on sow mastitis treatment costs by clipping piglet teeth on the first day after birth. Clipping involves ‘cutting’ or blunting of the eight teeth to get rid of the sharp pointed ends. Piglets are born with needlelike teeth, which can injure the udder of the mother during suckling. “Wounds predispose the mothers to
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Farmers can shell over 30 times more groundnuts per person per day using a manual decordicator machine from the Agricultural Technology Development Centre (ATDC), Mtwapa, Kilifi County. The machine can shell 60 kilogrammes of groundnuts per hour. It is approximated that one person can shell between one and three quarters to two kilos per hour
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