Godfrey Njoroge feels the weight of a rabbit during a farmers event at the Thika Technical Training Institute on February 24, 2017. Rabbak, a business organisation, is looking for rabbits. Photo by Laban Robert. A Kiambu County based group is looking for more than 1,000 rabbits per week from farmers to meet its growing demand […]
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Kenya John Deere branch marketer Vincent Omondi tests on the tractors in the Thika Technical Institute grounds on February 25, 2017. The cmpany is offering financial asset loans to farmers. Photo by Laban Robert. Farmers can access up to 80 per cent machinery financing with the entry of US-based tractor and other implements manufacturers, John
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With the growing population and consumption of chickens globally, these birds have become a major agribusiness venture with investments ranging from a few shillings into trillions of US dollars.Besides free range, where farmers only cater for the night security, successful formal rearing of chickens starts from the first day after a chick has been hatched
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Kevin Maini, Paul Ayieko and Maina Muchai (From left to right) inspecting spinaches in part of the eight-acre piece of land in Lanet, Nakuru, on February 17, 2017. The trio is helping its registered farmers in production and marketing harvests. Photo by Laban Robert. Three innovative youths have come up with an integrated agribusiness solution
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Farmer Mary Njeri attending to chicks at her farm in Nakuru. Selling a month old chick is more profitable than a day old one. Photo by Laban Robert. Selling one month old chicks can earn farmers three times more profits than those who dispose of the birds a day after hatching.Although it requires more labour
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Bags full of kales being loaded into a vehicle at Nyambari, along the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway for transportation to towns like Kisumu. A supplier is making more than Sh50,000 per week from such deliveries. Photo by Laban Robert. As the prices for the kales continue rising in major town in Kenya, one supplier is making more
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A bantam cock at the Mombasa International Trade Fair of 2016. Bantams are small but expensive ornamental birds farmers are turning to for more profits. Photo by Laban Robert. Instead of rearing chickens like other farmers, Lucy Ngugi has chosen bantams as one of the ornamental birds which require less hustle in keeping, but give
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Nathan Mala spraying tomato seedlings in 2016. Steaming soil has helped him control bacterial wilt and other tomato soil-borne diseases. Photo by Laban Robert. After a two-season sustained decline in the greenhouse tomato produce, Nathan Mala is recovering in yields after steaming the soil to kill pathogens like bacteria wilt. The Kiambu County
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Nathan Mala tends to his spinaches at his farm at Nyambari, Kimbu County in 2016. He makes more money by sellign the spinach in bundles to groceries. Photo by Laban Robert. In avoiding market middlemen, who eat into the profits, one Kiambu County spinach farmer is making more money from searching and delivering the vegetable
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A farmer inspects a banana bunch at Kitale VI Farm. A Nyamira County farmer makes double earning by ripening banana fingers for schools. PHOTO BY: Laban Robert As banana growers wait for nine months to get about Sh500 from on bunch another agripreneur is making twice the same amount in two weeks by ripening
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