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February 2020

About FarmBiz Society

In January 2020, FarmBizAfrica opened its new business club for entrepreneurial farmers, FarmBiz Society, providing free and subsidised business support. For the first 20 members to join in February 2020, the society is providing immediate free advertising of their products on the FarmBizAfrica website, on its social media accounts, and on its newsletter. To help

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Becoming a FarmBiz Society Agent

Farmbiz Society is a business club for entrepreneurial farmers providing free and subsidised business support to our members. Our main purpose is to help our members build and run growing farm businesses. Our main purpose is to help our members build and run growing farm businesses. Farmbiz Society works with farmers, renowned stakeholders in the

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Pineapple wines and vinegars add high-fashion niches for exporters as demand grows

Pineapples are the second most exported fruit in the world, after bananas, but with demand now growing sharply on the fashion for processing pineapples into wines, vinegars and baked goods, Kenya is ideally positioned to achieve export growth with the fruit. According to a Global Market Review of Major Tropical Fruits report by the Food

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Mango rises as healthy food for Middle East/ US / EU driving accelerating Kenyan exports

Rising awareness of mangoes as a healthy food is fueling accelerating world demand for the fruit, just as the lifting of export bans on Kenyan exports position local farmers to benefit from the surge in foreign sales.Rising awareness of mangoes as a healthy food is fueling accelerating world demand for the fruit, just as the

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Wajir youth launches online marketing and vet services for pastoralists

Driven by their childhood experience of a nomadic lifestyle where they witnessed their parents lose livestock to drought and lack of drugs and vaccines, two young entrepreneurs from Wajir County are now leveraging on technology to provide market and veterinary services to smallholder pastoralists in rural Kenya. Driven by their childhood experience of a nomadic

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Baringo milk farmer adds Sh46,000 a month to income by switching to Boma Rhodes fodder

Jackson Keitany, a dairy farmer from Kiplombe in Baringo County is now making Sh19,000 profit a month from milk sales, compared to Sh27,000 loss per month three years ago, due to planting his own Boma Rhodes grass fodder. Kiplombe, where Keitany has over 40 acres of land under dairy production, is a semi-arid area where

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