February 2018

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Oserian’s vuvuzela flower variety gains popularity in Kenya

Daniel Ndambuki famously known as Churchill pose for a photo with Oserian flower farm workers at the farm. He visited the farm in preparations to shoot his weekly comedy show Churchill Show. Vuvuzela, a niche market flower variety produced by Oserian flower farm in Naivasha attracts high end markets regardless of the arguments that the variety …

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Seed Co introduces new maize variety tolerant to lethal necrosis disease

Seed Co, a company that develops and markets certified crop seeds, mainly hybrid maize seed has introduced a new maize variety that is tolerant to the maize lethal necrosis disease (MLND). “The new maize variety KATEH 01 was developed over a period of three years since 2016 by Seed Co in collaboration with the Kenya …

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Rice husks, stalks value addition to benefit Mwea rice farmers

Rice husks More than 7,022 farmers from Mwea Irrigation Scheme are set to benefit from a programme which aims to use rice husks and stalks to make hay, block boards and ceiling boards among other products saving farmers problems of disposing the rice by-products which has faced them for over 64 years now. Kirinyaga County government …

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20,000 Meru farmers to benefits from sorghum value addition

  Over 20,000 smallholder farmers from Meru, Tharaka-Nithi and Kitui counties are set to benefit from sorghum value addition to make beer, biscuits and sausages through the help agri-business enterprise, Shalem Investments, a sorghum purchasing and processing company based in Meru. The farmers who are grouped in groups of between 20 and 50 farmers will …

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Amiran launches tomato variety resistant to bacterial wilt

Tomato farmers in Kenya are set to benefit from the launch of a new tomato variety resistant to bacterial wilt disease thanks to Amiran Kenya, a company that deals with horticultural production. The variety which was launched in August 2017 also has intermediate resistance to tomato yellow leaf curl virus, mosaic virus, and fusarium wilt …

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Farmer makes Sh50,000 more a season from tomatoes by avoiding sales orders

Livingstone Ng’ang’a makes an extra Sh50,000 a season from selling his tomatoes in Muthurwa market in Nairobi and Daraja Mbili market in Kisii, as opposed to waiting for orders during harvesting time from local traders. The move has seen his earnings climb to Sh2.06m a season from Sh2.01m.   He started tomato farming in 2013 …

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