Crowdy Agritech, a tech startup company which is supporting smallholders through crowdfunding has developed a farming model that allows several investors financially support the farmers with as little as Sh2,500 towards a farming project and earn from the proceeds together. The model dubbed peer to peer is opposed to high-interest bank loans that small-scale farmers […]
Vegetable farmers can now increase their produce shelf-life from three days or one week to over one year using solar chimney dryer which can be fabricated at home or at the farm hence avoiding post-harvest losses. It is estimated that 40-50 per cent of fruits and vegetables produced in Kenya are lost or wasted along
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Sadik Sadique, a maize farmer from Trans Nzoia County is has been able to double his crop production by adopting new methods of planting which include increasing spacing and adopting soil testing to determine fertiliser ratio following experts’ advice. In 2016 used to produce 500-600 kilos per acre from his 700 acres farm but this
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A tree tomato farmer from Nyeri County who quit a driving job three years ago to venture into farming has now become his own boss in the crop production which is earning him up to Sh640,000 gross income per month. James Njeru used to be a truck driver for a Chinese firm which had employed
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Joseph Wabwire, a sorghum farmer in Busia who decided to change from using synthetic pesticides to natural pesticides pest control method is now recording six bags extra per acre out of his three acres land thanks to the help from colleagues and personal research efforts. Three years back, the farmer relied heavily on synthetic pesticide-Reldan
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Green Roots Trading Llc, a Dubai-based vegetables and fruits importer is looking for exporters who can supply them with avocado, orange and dragon fruits to meet the increasing demand in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) country. During the warm winter months when many tourists visit the country demand for fruit and vegetables is always higher
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Until 2017, Hellen Jeruiyot, a small-scale farmer from Elgeyo Marakwet County used to grow maize for food and income but the poor market price of the cereal made her change to orange fleshed sweet potato farming which is currently earning her Sh8,000 a month thanks to value addition. “With maize, I used to work so
Elgeyo Marakwet farmer who grows orange fleshed sweet potato to exploit its rich market Read More »
About 25,000 small-scale fish farmers from Homa Bay County are set to increase production and profit following the launch of a hatchery and feeds processing plant that will enable the producers source both seeds and feeds locally hence reducing the cost of production. Previously, farmers had to travel long distances from Western to Central Kenya
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In 2017 Nelson Orembe, a poultry farmer from Nyando in Kisumu County decided, due to stiff completion, to leave chicken farming for domestic Guinea fowls, a venture which is currently earning him more than double what he used to get hence he has never looked back. With no experience in poultry farming, Orembe had in
Kisumu farmer who dumped chicken for Guinea fowls has never looked back Read More »
Kenyan farmers and traders can increase the value of their foreign exchange earnings and protect themselves from fluctuations that can potentially reduce their earnings and increase their input costs by the adoption of foreign currency management strategies. According to ABC Bank, foreign exchange markets have become volatile due to various reasons among them the trade