A woman walks past tomatoes. Tomato prices have started falling. Photo by Development of rural areas. As consumers continue to pay high prices for various commodities in Kenya, the price of basic commodities may start dropping- two months into the rain season. Tomatoes, whose price for instance shot to sell at about Sh7,500 per crate […]
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Loaders carrying maize . Kenyans are turning to Cheap maize from Uganda. Photo by The Star. Kenyan consumers and traders are moving into Uganda in search of cheap dry maize to mitigate the effects of the consistent shortage that has caused the rise of the cost of the product despite the recently announced government subsidy.
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A caged dove at Mombasa ASK Show in 2016. Doves are no longer pets for the boys but agribusiness ventures. Photo by Laban Robert. While other people look at doves and pigeons as lad’s pets, a Rift Valley farmer is tapping into the growing market for the flowery birds to make tens of thousands per
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A farmer harvests brachiaria grass. The grass survives drought. Photo by Pasturas de America As the cost of the feeds doubled in the country during the November 2016-March 2017 dry season, other farmers escaped the harsh weather with brachiaria grass, which has shown tolerance to drought. Homa bay farmer Stephen Nyamisi continued to feed his
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Buyers surround a green maize roasting fireplace for a bite. The maize price has risen by more than ten times in Mombasa. Photo by Saijiki for Kenya and other tropical regions. The cost of green maize has risen by more than 10 times in Mombasa as the rains set the stage of recovery from the
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A polythene lined fish pond at Nairobi’s Langata Men Prisons farm. Embu farmers are using lime to smear the ponds instead of polythene linings to prevent water seepage. Photo by Laban Robert. A group of fish farmers in Embu County have turned to lime for hardening the walls of ponds as an alternative to the
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Napa cabbage. A Limuru farmer is cashing in on the rising number of Chinese in Kenya by growing napa, one of their favourite dishes. Photo by SheKnows. While other people are condemning the swelling population of the Chinese, a Limuru farmer is cashing in on the influx by growing one of the commonest delicacies for
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Tomatoes at a Ugandan market. The price of the commodity is dropping after doubling in the past three months. Photo by New Vision. After more than three months of paying triple price for tomatoes, the cost of the commodity has dropped by almost half- a month since the rains started falling. A 64kg crate of
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A trader wit maize bags for sale. Maize in Loitoktok si selling at the lowest price in Kenya. Photo by The Star. As consumers continue paying an average of Sh4,510 per 90kg bag in major towns in Kenya, those in Kajiado County’s town, Loitoktok, are paying the lowest price of Sh3,800. Suggestions indicate that the
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A farmer winnows beans. CIAT and other partners have come up with 12 beans varieties cooking within 15 minutes. Photo by CIAT Consumers and bean traders will soon be spending about 100 minutes less in cooking the delicacy with the 12 newly released varieties from the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture, CIAT. The precooked bens
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