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May 2020
Water tanks offer health and savings for rural homes
By Lydia Gichuki Investing in a water tank can reduce a rural home’s water costs by two thirds, reduce water-borne diseases, and pay for itself within a year and a half: freeing up nearly Sh50,000 a year from then onwards to spend on other things, according to a FarmBizAfrica survey of water tank prices and
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COVID Fund delivers free agronomist tests and advice for farmers
By Fredrique Achieng A new farm know-how service providing soil testing and guidance on ideal crops and seeds is giving free services to farmers for the next three months funded by a COVID fund to help increase farm yields for 2020. Farmers must be a member of a co-operative society, in order to get the
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FarmBiz TV: Grapes are earning a place as a new crop in Kenya for local wines.
By John Matava As more companies experiment with Kenyan/made wines, the country’s quality of grapes in proving promising, opening up a potential new agricultural segment. Related News: Farmers can diversify their sources of income by growing grapes Star vineyard farmer establishes own wines company Murang’a wine maker training farmers on commercial production of grapes High
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FarmBiz TV: Green pepper delivers quality sales through long season and resilience.
By John Matava Green pepper, taking 3 months to mature, has a hardy skin that makes it last for longer than the yellow and red varieties, which easily get scorched to brown patches making them less attractive for the fresh market. Related News: How to achieve maximum Sweet pepper yield Uasin Gishu farmers dump maize
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Farmers get fast-track aflatoxin tests to save crops as shortage looms
By Lydia Gichuki With a shortage of maize looming, farmers are turning to test kits to isolate grain that has been contaminated by aflatoxins and help save the remainder of their crops. The World Health Organisation estimates that about a quarter of all food produced globally is destroyed every year because of aflatoxin contamination. The
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Farmers cut mango losses by a third with home-made brick coolers
By Jolene Njambi The Rockefeller Foundation through its Yieldwise Foodloss Initiative is showing farmers how to reduce post-harvest mango losses by up to 30 per cent by building simple, home-made, zero-energy cooling brick chambers. Working with Technoserve, the initiative has so far trained over 20,000 farmers on how to create and use the chambers to
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Coffee fund launches pre-crop finance for smallholders
By Fredrique Achieng’ and Jolene Njambi The newly formed Coffee Cherry Advance Revolving Fund has opened to applications from smallholders for advance pay-outs on their future coffee sales, with the first credits expected to begin from August 2020. Coffee has long been Kenya’s third largest agricultrual export, after tea and horticulture. However, in March 2019,
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Tea industry beats clock picking and transporting in daylight
By George Munene For an industry that seemed to be working nearly 24 hours a day, especially during the rainy season, the tea industry in Tharaka Nithi county is bearing the toll of the Covid-19 p[revention measures surprisingly well. For while others involved in agriculture, such as fishermen and food transporters, have been granted exemptions
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