By Lydia Gichuki Kenya is exporting just 30 per cent of its normal level of fresh produce exports during the Coronavirus pandemic, far below current European demand, as the difficulties in getting produce to the airport, the lack of available air cargo space, and the tripling in air cargo prices, combine to prevent the dispatch […]
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By Fredrique Achieng More than 14 test centres are now available for truck drivers and other workers crossing Kenya’s borders to get mandatory ‘attestation’ letters to show they have tested negative for COVID-19 48 hours before travelling. “Public transport is a very important player in terms of both transmission and also in the facilitation of
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By John Matava Green maize is fetching premium pricing, at 16,000 maize plants per acre, each with double cobs selling at Sh8 to Sh10 each, and it is harvested at four months, compared to six months for dry grains that sell for less. Related News: Farmer resorts to green maize, making four times profit as
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By Lydia Gichuki As Kenya has moved into the double restriction of a dusk-to-dawn curfew, and the lockdown and banning of movement in and out of Nairobi and other cities, food transporters have been classed as essential services, meaning they can enter and exit the lock-downed cities and travel at night. But how can farmers
By George Munene CCTV cameras keeping an eye on livestock and vegetables might seem like overkill, but for Caleb Karuga, the once TV journalist and always farmer, who lives by his patented #UkulimaSioUshamba, it makes perfect sense. On his parents 3-acre farm at Ishuga, Nanyuki, and his own farm in Kikuyu, the electronic ‘big brother’
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By Christine Mwaura Kenya’s coffee production and yields increased in 2019 following the government and counties’ distribution of free tree seedlings. But the biggest cause of farmers’ flight from coffee has been prices too low for smallholders’ survival. However, value addition, by processing beans on the farm, can lift the value of small-hold coffee crops
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