Farmers are selling milk to hawkers to make more profits: Photo courtesy. It is a sigh of relief to one Kericho County dairy farmer, Robert Langat who feared that his way of making a living by selling the produce directly to consumers was doomed after Kenya Dairy Board (KDB) late last week proposed ramifications for […]
Kenyan farmers can now export their beef products to Uganda after President Yoweri Museveni lifted the ban on imports into the country following trade talks with President Uhuru Kenyatta. The ban was imposed in 1997 over safety concerns following the outbreak of mad cow and rinderpest diseases which have since been controlled. According to the
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Sorghum is a crop that is on high demand in Kenya with companies such as the East African Breweries Limited looking for 45,000 more farmers to grow the crop after successfully contracting 17,000 in Western and Nyanza regions. A research by EABL in 2017 reveals that Kenya trails her neighbors in sorghum production due to
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A 2012 Mass Communication graduate from Kenya Methodist University is earning about Sh1m net income a season from Boma Rhode hay farming after quitting a Sh10,000 salary job thanks to his farther who natured the young farmer through the fodder production. David Kemboi Kiprop, 26, after graduating in December 2012 got a job as a
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Low rainfall regions dairy farmers can feed their livestock through the year by growing drought tolerant fodder maize for silage. The yellow composite maize from Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO) tolerates high temperatures up to 30 degrees Celsius typical to dry areas such as Makueni, Kitui and Machakos in addition to withstanding dry
Packed avocado fruits for export. Photo: Oyugi Zablon. Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS), a government parastatal responsible for quality of agricultural inputs and produce has introduced new requirements to guide avocado farmers and traders interested to grow and export the fruit to the Republic of South Africa in a bid to guard the market.
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In 2009 Daniel Wanjama and his four colleagues left their jobs at the Ministry of Agriculture to start the Seed Savers Network, a non-profit agro-diversity social enterprise based in Gilgil, Nakuru County to promote environmentally free access to seeds by farmers. According to the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service, the informal seed sector in Kenya
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Bell Industries Limited sales agronomist, Peter Chomba- Mt. Kenya region showing BELSAP during a past farmers’ field day. Photo: Zablon Oyugi. Farmers, especially in water-stressed areas growing various types of crops such as horticulture and field crops, forest and fruit trees, potted plants and flowers can now increase chances of survival of the plants using water-saving
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Cargill in partnership with Heifer International has launched The Hatching Hope Global Initiative which aims to help smallholders through the production, promotion and consumption of poultry as they target to improve the nutrition and economic livelihoods of 100 million people by 2030. Hatching Hope will work directly with women smallholder farmers in Kenya, Mexico, and
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Scientists at the International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) in partnership with the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Organization have found new wasp species that can eliminate more than 70 per cent of fall armyworm pest. The two wasp varieties Trichogramma and Telenomous when released into affected maize plantations lay their eggs on the
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