June 2019

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An industrialist ventures into chilli puree production, provides ready market for women farmers group

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 …

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Western Kenya-based agro-processing firm offers ready market for pawpaw farmers

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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Kenyan tea farmers bet on new technology at collection centres for efficiency and transparency

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 …

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Eldoret business lady urgently recruiting farmers to plant and supply capsicums, long cayenne chili, courgettes and corn flowers

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 …

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Gatundu farmer earns Sh640,000 a season from strawberry farming after quitting job

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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Jobs fund assists farmers to find markets for their produce

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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Pawpaw farming promises brighter future for a missionary

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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