December 2018

Beatrice Nkatha Demostrates how mechanism has improved Sorghum delivery

How former tailor grew to become a regional trader in sorghum

Beatrice Nkatha, Demostrates how mechanism has improved Sorghum delivery. A former tailor who found the work not giving her adequate returns decided to abandon it and venture in sorghum business in 2009, a business which has seen her trading in over 1,000 metric tonnes of the crop in Kenya and Tanzania hence meeting her needs. …

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Varsity student invents bio-gas incubator, looking for funds to commercialise the apparatus

A student from Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) has invented a bio-gas incubator which could be more efficient and affordable as compared to electric, solar and kerosene incubators which are already in the market. While the design of the incubator is affordable, portable, user friendly and easy to maintain, Shawn Kasoa, 23, …

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Green banana and broccoli market opens up for Kenyan farmers in South Korea

Kenyan farmers, as well as horticulture exporters dealing in green bananas and broccoli, have a new market for selling their products; South Korea, following clearance from the country’s Animal and Quarantine Agency. “The purpose of this announcement is to bring this information to your attention and request your assistance in contacting farmers and exporters of …

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Bonfese Wanjala Winner of Wefarms Champion Farmer competition

Wefarm launches Champion Farmer award for farmers driving agricultural knowhow countrywide

Nairobi, Kenya December 11, 2018 – Bonfese Wanjala, a maize farmer from Siaya, who was close to abandoning his loss-making farming eight months ago, has been named as Wefarm’s latest Champion Farmer in Kenya, having increased his output 35-fold and led the way in raising the productivity of his fellow farmers on the Wefarm network. …

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Women group earns Sh10,000 in three months from indigenous vegetables flour

A group of enterprising farmers in Kericho County is banking on the growing demand for traditional vegetables, having now expanded acreage under cultivation and ventured into value addition activities like processing vegetable flour earning them about Sh10,000 in three months. Toroch Gaa Women Self Help group was founded in 2008 and comprises of more than …

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KALRO launches eight new maize varieties resistant to the lethal necrosis viral disease

A maize breeder and researcher from KARLO view the new maize hybrid that is resistant to the Maize Lethal Necrosis (MLN) viral disease. Photo courtesy. The Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO) has launched eight new maize varieties that are resistant to Maize Lethal Necrosis Disease (MLND) which has been wiping out maize plantations …

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