Olive Island Enterprises chilli puree products. Photo courtesy. Teddy Ngoba, a Kenyan industrialist who ventured into value addition last year to manufacture chilli puree is now providing a group of women farmers from the coast with a ready market for their produce that they could hurriedly sell at low prices to avoid post-harvest losses. According …
Pawpaw farmers in Western Kenya on a field training by Great Lakes Breeders Limited agronomists on how to plant and manage the fruit. Photo courtesy. Kenya Papaya Products Ltd (KPPL), an agro-processing company based in Bendera, along the Chavakali – Kaimosi Road in Vihiga County, Western Kenya is offering a ready market for pawpaw farmers …
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Farmer’s Smart Card. Tea farmers in Kenya are betting on the newly introduced technology in the sector at different collection centres across the country to enable the growers within a short time deliver their produce and submit their details for proper record keeping to ensure they do not incur any losses due to errors which …
An Eldoret based business lady is looking for all-comer farmers to plant and supply red and yellow capsicums, long cayenne chili, courgettes and cornflowers. “There is a high demand for these products in local markets within Eldoret, Bungoma, Kitale and the entire North Rift region,” said Rahab Wanjiru, an Eldoret based business lady. Wanjiru, a …
One Nyeri farmer has started fish rearing after using water collected from surface run-off in the rainy season in a bid to diversify and earn more income. In May 2018, James Kamotho, 55, realized that a lot of water was going to waste in every time it rains and since he wanted to fully use …
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In 2016, John Kimani quit his job as a Project Officer at Mkulima Young to start strawberry farming, a venture that earns him an average of Sh640,000 a season. From his farm in Gatundu, Kimani harvests 1600kg of strawberries in a season. In this, he sells the produce at Nairobi city market at Sh400 per …
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A programme supported by the Jobs Fund’s is benefitting small-scale farmers by helping them find markets in Sekororo by, a rural community in Limpopo province, that produces food that is sold all over South Africa. The Sekororo farmers, who are participating in the Lima Smallholder Farmer Support Programme, have seen their farming enterprises being transformed …
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Farmers can avert drastic and immediate death of day-old chicks soon after introducing them into the new brooders by offering clean water and ensuring the temperature is kept between 32 and 34 degrees Celsius. A 2018 research published in the African Journal of Poultry Farming revealed that more than half of hatched chicks for instance …
Samuel Mutegi Njeru in black shirt of Grate Lakes Breeders Ltd (GLBL) training pawpaws farmers in Migori County on farm management. Photo courtesy. A missionary who ventured into pawpaw farming in Migori County, Kenya is looking forward for a brighter future after ignoring the normal maize and beans that many farmers in the area are growing and …
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Diarrhea in camel calves aged between one and three months in Kenya causes between 12 to 60 per cent deaths. Farmers can curb this by using traditional remedies that have been found to be effective such as rehydration (the process of restoring lost water to body tissues) using honey, table salt and water mixture and …
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