New Kenya Co-operative Creameries (KCC) has received half a billion shillings from the strategic food reserve to purchase 105 million litres surplus milk from dairy farmers in the country who have been experiencing increased production occasioned by good rains in recent months. The funds will help the co-operative mop up milk surplus in the market […]
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As demand by hotels local and international intensify for bixa which is the raw material for food colour, farmers at the Coast where the crop grows well are emerging as the ultimate winners with demand pushing prices by up to five times. The crop seed extracts are processed to make food colourings. According to Richard
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A group of 35 youth in Kakamega County who are also school leavers have ventured into the production of Spirulina, a microalgae which is not cultivated by many farmers in the country currently earning them millions of shillings. The group first got the idea of the lucrative venture from a professor and a nutritionist from
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Magdaline Ajowi a farmer in Rangwe village of Homa Bay County is making up to Sh1,000a day from chilli exports, ten times what she earned from maize thanks to a partnership with a chilli exporting company. The farmer has traditionally grown maize which sometimes she intercropped with beans but always recorded low yields due to
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Specialty coffee producers in Kenya are set to grow their income following the launch of the beverage auction with a capacity of 38,000 tonnes in the US that will allow the direct sale of the produce further providing market for the growers who have been decrying about poor prices. According to Samuel Kamau, executive director
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Beekeepers from Tana River County are recording increased honey production and incomes with modern beekeeping kits thanks to their efforts to form themselves in marketing groups which is also seeing them enjoy economies of scale. The beekeepers have always used the rudimental log hives for beekeeping. The total number of log hives in previous years
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The increasing demand for kenbro chicks, eggs and meat is luring Narok County poultry farmers, who were into indigenous chicken farming, to ditch to the breed which they now rear and sell their products to other farmers, hotels and potential traders from Nairobi and local markets. Kenbro, which belongs to Kenchic, producer of poultry in
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A group of 10 farmers in Ishiara, Embu County who were into subsistence maize farming are currently earning a gross income of up to Sh300,000 a season from pawpaw fruits and seedlings production thanks to funds from micro-financier. The farmers who came together in February 2018 as Vineyard Kilimo farmers are small scale farmers who
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Banana farmers from Kirinyaga County have more than tripled their profit in the recent past by selling their produce as a group something that has strengthened their bargaining power. Brought together under Kimweas Group, the farmers used to sell a kilo of the fruit at Sh4 each to realise Sh120 per bunch of 30 kilos.
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While other people are condemning the swelling population of the Chinese in Kenya, a Limuru farmer is cashing in on the influx by growing one of the commonest delicacies for these Far East people, the napa cabbage. A one kilo cabbage head costing about Sh30 in Nairobi at wholesale earns David Muge between Sh60 and
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