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March 2019

Muranga avocado exhibition and conference

Avocado society mobilising for increased production as more markets expected

Guests having a glance of some of the products shocased by various exhibitors during the National Avocado Ehibition and Conference at Murang’a University of Technology. Photo: Oyugi Zablon.  Avocado Society of Kenya is encouraging farmers to venture and increase commercial production of the crop as the country expect more export market from China. The country […]

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apple seedlings

Seedlings nursery introduces drought tolerant apples for low rainfall areas

Gifted Apples Seedlings nursery in Muranga County has introduced drought tolerant apples suitable for farmers in low rainfall areas for a continuous supply of the fruit even during drier seasons. The apples resulted from graft between loquat and two most common apples, Rome beauty and Winter bananas making the resultant variety a low-water-demanding seedling. The

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Cocoa Pods On Tree

Kilifi farmers to start organic cocoa farming as an alternative crop to cashew nuts

Farmers from Kilifi County are set to start organic cocoa farming in a bid to diversify their agricultural output after the county government announced plans to introduce the crop as an alternative to cashew nuts which has been faced by challenges such as pests and diseases lowering production. In 2009, the national government banned the

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cricket insects

Researchers identify 28 insect species with higher crude protein content effective for fish and poultry production

West and Central Africa researchers have identified 28 insect species in Kenya and Uganda with higher crude protein (dry matter (DM) basis) than most of the commercial feeds to help sort the problem of poor quality feeds and high cost of fish and poultry production. According to the researchers, in many sub-Saharan African countries, the

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soil testing

FAO launches programme to increase soil productivity and reduce degradation in Africa

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and its international soil partnership have launched a programme to increase soil productivity in forty seven African countries by thirty per cent, and reduce soil degradation by twenty five per cent within the next 10 years. Africa is the second driest continent in the world,

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JKUAT introduces new button mushroom variety suitable for warmer areas

Mr. Kanyi with the Button Agaricus Bitorquis spawn in the soil laboratory. Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) has introduced a new button mushroom variety called warm weather button mushroom (Agaricus bitorquise) which does well in warm weather conditions areas as opposed to the common variety (Agaricus phosphorus) hence easy to produce without

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strawberry farming on multi storey garden

Farmer harvesting strawberries all year round from multi-storey gardening

Daniel Gitau, a strawberry farmer from Gatundu Sounth Sub-County, Kiambu County is continuously harvesting strawberry fruits all year round from his multi-storey gardens within his quarter acre piece of plot thanks to the new technology which requires limited water  to irrigate the crops as oposed to open field. According to Gitau, multi-storey gardens conserve irrigation

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