Yad Bio Vitaliser company officer Andrew Kusewa poses beside multi-storey kales and black night shade gardens in demonstration farm on October 8, 2016 during the Nairobi International ASK Show. A Trans Nzoi farmer has reversed vegetable growing calendar to beat market challenges. PHOTO BY LABAN ROBERT. Growing vegetables for harvest during the low supply season …
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Paul Kabucwa from Opica Farm holds a 37kg pumpkin fruit for display at the North Rift Agricultural Society of Kenya Show on October 29, 2016. A Marigat farmer got more than Sh140,000 by selling the pumpkins to Opica Farm in October 2016. PHOTO BY LABAN ROBERT. A Baringo County farmer, who sold about 800kg of pumpkins …
An 83-year-old multiple-fruit Machakos County farmer Muia Kusenga inspects avocado fruits on July 22, 2016. Controlled atmosphere containers have expanded Kenya’s avocado export market. PHOTO BY LABAN ROBERT. New markets have opened up for Kenyan avocado farmers after the exporters adopted the use of controlled atmosphere (CA) containers to ship out the fruit to Europe, …
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Officers inspect fertiliser in an Eldoret Depot.Storing grains in warehouses can help farmers access farm input and other expenses credit facilities. PHOTO BY BUSINESS DAILY. Farmers storing maize and other grains in warehouses can access farm inputs and emergency credit facilities of more than 70 per cent against their cereal value from agro-dealers and banks. …
Trucks line up to deliver maize to the National Cereals and Produce Board. Online grain selling platform saves farmers over 30 per cent losses. PHOTO BY BUSINESS DAILY. Farmers aggregating and selling grains via online platform, G-Soko, are saving more than 30 per cent of their harvests due to access to quality storage facilities besides …
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Trans-Nzoia Governor Patrick Khaemba hands over fertiliser to farmers in Cherangany. OLX has partnered with Mavuno Technology and other companies to sell agro-inputs to farmers. PHOTO COURTESY: THE STANDARD. Farmers, who have been facing challenges in buying goods through the online advertising platform OLX, can purchase input and products the company’s physical shops. This is …
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Farmers can keep off grain destroying pests for two years without chemicals after the USAID Kenya and the Ministry of Agriculture launched hermetic bags, which suffocate any crop storage enemies. The official launch follows years of testing for efficacy in taming maize, wheat, beans, cowpeas, among other grains destroying organisms such as weevils and moths. …
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Western Seed Company employee Claide Ong’ura in the firm’s maize demonstration plot in Kitale on October 29, 2016. The company’s WH403 variety tolerates low nitrogen and rain to give more than 20 bags of 90kg per acre. PHOTO BY LABAN ROBERT. Farmers from low nitrogen regions, who cannot buy enough fertiliser to provide the nutrient to maize, …
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JKUAT student Martin Gechimo poses in front of the movable Capillary Wick System farm during the institution’s Seventh Tech Expo on November 4, 2016. Other students marvel at the farm, which can host 100 crops. PHOTO BY LABAN ROBERT. University students have created a movable farm for urban dwellers who can cut kitchen cots …
Kisii University farm manager Peter Ondieki inspects tomatoes at the institution’s wooden greenhouse demonstration farm at the Kisii Agricultural Society of Kenya Show Ground on July 15, 2016. Crop rotation in greenhouse farming quadruples yields. PHOTO BY LABAN ROBERT Greenhouse crop rotation can help farmers utilise nutrients better besides raising crop yields by more than four …
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