Quantam Foods, a feed and poultry products firm in South Africa, has recorded 13.6 per cent decline in its egg business during the first four months to January 2019, according to Business Day. Compared to earnings in the corresponding period of the previous year, Quantam had posted a significant decline in earnings which it attributed […]
Demonstration of use of a simple portable miller/chopper that has been designed to mechanise feed value addition during a farmers’ workshop event. Photo courtesy. The government has established Lari Technical Training Institute in Kiambu, adding on the list of technical institutes in Kenya to help farmers add value to their various produce such as milk, meat
Fish smoking kiln. Photo courtesy. Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research (NIOMR) has developed a smoking kiln to help improve income and transform lives of West Africans farmers and fishermen who have be incurring losses due to fish spoilage by relying on traditional methods of preserving fish. According to a 2015 study on Overview
A traditional chicken company is buying eggs from out-grower farmers in Kenya. “For us to purchase produce from farmers, an interested farmer has to register with us by sending a short message with the word ‘OUTGROWERS’ to the number 0727200116, the system will then guide the applicant through the entire registration process,” said Ian Mutwiri,
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KROTAJ Tahini Manufacturers PLC (KROTAJ), an international partnership of sesame experts and investment professionals last week on Thursday launched sesame hulling plant in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to provide ready market for thousands of farmers in the country. The newly certified factory will be manufacturing tahini, a condiment made from toasted ground hulled sesame for export.
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Kenya has lifted ban on Chinese fish imports into the country at a time when local fish production has declined due to water hyacinth invasion in Lake Victoria, Kenya’s main source of fish. The ban on Chinese fish was enforced last year by the Department of Fisheries in a bid aimed at protecting the local
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Grape Growers Association of Kenya has introduced in the country high yielding South African table and wine grape cuttings, seedlings and rootstocks accessible to farmers from all parts of the country to enable them increase their production and income. According to the company’s chairman, Moses Gitile , the South African grape varieties are preferred given
Smallholder farmers in Kenya can increase fodder yields by 60 per cent by planting smut disease resistant varieties such as Kakamega 1 and Kakamega 2. In Kenya, the disease causes an estimated 60 to 80 per cent yield losses annually according to the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization. 65 per cent of livestock farmers
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Kenyan farmers have yet another opportunity to get exposed to new brands, products and services thanks to an international trade show on agriculture, poultry and veterinary which will be held in Nairobi. The exhibition will be held in collaboration with Foodpack from 22nd-24th of this month at Sarit Expo Centre Westlands. The event has attracted
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Robert Macharia showing off one of the trophy he won during a Nairobi International Trade Fair. He currently has 26 dairy goats, milking 14 of them at his farm at Githurai 45, Kiambu County. Photo Courtesy. Robert Macharia Kinyua in 2014 left his job as a driver to focus on his dairy goat farming, a
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