In 2007, Rosemary Odinga, the daughter of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga was the only snail farmer licensed by the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to raise the slimy creatures. However, the venture has been on the rise among Kenyan farmers due to increasing demand from the influx of West African and Asian nationals into the […]
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The modern world is built on chemicals, be it medicines we apply, or cleaning fluids, crop protection products, or the raw materials for everything from laptops and mobile phones to clothes and furniture. Across all, we have created an entire modern society with chemicals, and, as a result, constantly stretched the size of the world
Why Kenya must now learn the meaning of a hazard and of a risk: or die Read More »
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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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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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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Chia farming is a new arrival in Kenya, but production of the annual herb is being taken up rapidly by farmers as its outstanding health benefits drive galloping demand growth in both local and international markets. According to Lilian Aketch, a nutritional and dietetic consultant based in Nairobi, chia seeds are emerging as a superfood
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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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Timothy Mburu a farmer from Naromuru, Nyeri County says he struck gold four years ago after he decided to venture into garlic (Kitunguu saumu) farming, and abandoned large-scale farming of maize, potatoes and cabbage. Timothy Mburu a farmer from Naromuru, Nyeri County says he struck gold four years ago after he decided to venture into
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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
Wajir youth launches online marketing and vet services for pastoralists Read More »
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
Baringo milk farmer adds Sh46,000 a month to income by switching to Boma Rhodes fodder Read More »