Green grams or mung beans and in Kiswahili Ndengu. They are loved for their numerous health benefits including fight of breast cancer. Farmers growing green grams and groundnuts in most parts of the country have a better chance of earning more as compared to their counterparts who grow other legumes owing to […]
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Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) logo. KALRO is now able to offer Kenyan farmers, researchers, students and over 9 Kenyan Universities with real-time agricultural information. The Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) has launched an e-service platform and three mobile apps for chicken, dryland crop and pasture
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Mushroom farming in Kenya is steadily gathering pace as one of the preferred sources of investment in agribusiness with a promise of quick returns. (Pic: Farmbiz Africa) Farmers intending to grow mushrooms for sale can use farm waste from their farms to grow the sweet food produce. Mushroom is not a rain fed crop, and
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Indigenous chickens need enough feed to grow and lay eggs. Indigenous local chicken provide a cheap source of food and easy cash to the family for most smallholder farmers in Kenya. Local chicken are readily available for most rural people, they do well in most areas and do not cost much to keep. They also
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Farm of Sesame plants. Sesame is better crop rotation of cotton, maize, groundnut, wheat, and sorghum besides reducing nematode populations that attack cotton and groundnut. With the rise of unpredictable rainfall, pests and diseases in most parts of the country, farmers who grow sesame famously known as simsim or
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Berur farmers group has resorted to chicken rearing due multiple crop losses Many smallholder crop farmers across Kenya as face many challenges including unreliable rainfall and low crop yields due to the existing climate change that has led to unpredictable rainfall patterns and crop diseases and pests such as fall army worm which has devastated
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Strawberry fruits.Strawberry farming has become increasingly popular in the recent past in Kenyan rural and peri-urban areas. Mitahato Education and Development Fund (MEDF), a dedicated organization to nurture the roots of change in rural Kenya is assisting the youths through training and financial support
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Field day event at Waruhiu Agriculture Training Centre. Farmers get trained and linked to markets and other agricultural stake holders during the field days. Waruhiu Agriculture Training Centre is the only agricultural centre in Kiambu County where farmers from the county and beyond
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Maize inter-cropped with fertilizer trees. There is huge benefits legumes have on soil fertility and ultimately faster and healthier maturity of crops. Photo: ICRAF. Farmers growing traditional crops like maize side by side with legumes are recording more than double increase in yields and cutting down on fertilizer spend as legumes fertilize the
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A rooftop garden. With dwindling arable land, rooftop gardening can feed dozens of people comfortably. Photo: satu harapan. In the unforgiving coastal climate and land that returns poor yields is the story of a rooftop garden, barely the size of a standard kitchen, hosting over 1100 different plant, and returning Sh20, 000 a month. The story
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