February 2019

Fresh produce exporter looking for growers from Kajiado and Ukambani counties

A fresh produce exporter is seeking to contract French beans, mangoes, passion fruit and avocadoes farmers from Kajiado, Makueni, Machakos and Kitui counties to grow and supply them with the crop in order to meet their growing demand from European Union market. FarmGrown Kenya Limited, a Nairobi based exporter which begun its operations last year […]

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Fact sheet on heart water disease in cattle, sheep and goats

Heart water is a disease of domestic animals such as cattle, sheep and goats with up to 90 per cent mortality rate if not treated. The disease is transmitted by a parasite that’s transmitted by bont ticks as they move from one animal to another. These ticks usually found in the armpits, on the scrotum,

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Scientist finds solution to deadly banana disease through genetic orientation

A principal scientist at Plant Biotechnology at International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Kenya has, through genetic orientation, found a solution to banana streak virus, a deadly banana disease that threatens to make it impossible to grow the crop. The banana streak virus can not only be spread from plant to plant by insects

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New biological solution stops fruit flies attack on mangoes

Mango farmers in Kenya who have been incurring 30 to 80 per cent fruit yield losses due to attack by fruit flies can now control the pests using a new biological solution, cera cap from Amiran Kenya, an agricultural input company. The company is selling a single trap at Sh450 while a liter of cera

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Fresh produce exporter looking for growers from Kajiado and Ukambani counties

Fact sheet on heart water disease in cattle, sheep and goats

Scientist finds solution to deadly banana disease through genetic orientation

New biological solution stops fruit flies attack on mangoes