Agricultural stakeholders led by the Kenya Health Plant Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) are set to market and promote the growing of potatoes in Kenya as a food of choice to enhance food security. Potato marketing will be done through potato field days set to be organized by all stakeholders in the potato sector in the country. […]
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A Siaya County banker is earning Sh83, 000 a month from her side-hustle which involves raising different fruit seedlings and selling them for Sh120 to Sh200. Sellah Awino Migaya first started out as a poultry farmer in 2016, rearing kuroiler and indigenous variety of chicken, which earned her Sh150, 000 net per month she
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A farmer from Naro Moru village in Nyeri County has turned to Facebook to advertise and sell Brachiaria Mulatto II hybrid grass, a move that has enabled him to reach over 2,426 people. Gibson King’ori opened his Facebook page in January 2016 but only used it for posting social matters until he learnt how the
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The government of Kenya through the Ministry of Agriculture and in collaboration with other foreign ministries has launched the national aquaculture curriculum to promote and sustain tilapia farming in ponds within Lake Victoria catchment areas and across the country. In partnership with the German Development Cooperation Agency (GDCA) and Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry’s Agency
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Emmanuel Bankole Emmanuel Bankole, the founder and CEO of Agromarketplace Nigeria Limited, was voted as one of the 12 finalists in Gogettaz, a competition that involves entrepreneurs seeking financial injection and exposure for their business ventures from the entertainment company, Kwese Inc. Agromarketplace is an online-offline agricultural commodities platform which provides 256 farmers dealing in
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A family in Mukinduri village in Kirinyaga County is making about Sh100, 000 per month on banana farming after abandoning coffee, a crop which was once feted as black gold. This is due to coffee’s dwindling market price and infiltration of unscrupulous business people in the business making it hard for the farmers to fully
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Onyancha and Sang’anyi’s one acre tomato farm in Nyamira North Sub-county. The two farmers are expecting to start harvesting their tomatoes from mid-March this year. Two Kisii farmers are anticipating to earn more than Sh750, 000 a month from their one acre farm after planting tomatoes in December 26th last year to January
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Farmers can now detect crop diseases and deficiency of important nutrients such as phosphorus thanks to the launch of a new app called Eska developed by botanist and biochemist, Samuel Kamya. The app which was launched in December 2017 is available on android devices. Once installed, the user taps on the icon labeled Eska, it
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Kenyan farmers who join cooperative societies such as Ortum farmers’ cooperative society, to market their produce are more likely to double or triple their income due to improved bargaining power. David Roron, an onion farmer in West Pokot County for instance, has increased his earnings from Sh120, 000 to Sh350, 000 per acre per season
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A group of 41 Nyamira farmers are earning between Sh500 to Sh1000 per bunch of bananas after establishing a joint marketing collection center to market their bananas. This is triple the amount they used to earn per bunch when they sold the produce individually. The farmers came together to spur sales after receiving various trainings
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