April 2021

By George Munene Pula, a Kenyan agricultural insurance and technology company, is offering smallholder farmers innovative and affordable crops and livestock insurance cover for as little as Sh500 to Sh1000.  This, coupled with the firm’s digital products such as the Pula mobile app is helping often uninsured and overlooked small-scale farmers endure the risk of […]

Over 3,000 small-scale sunflower farmers in Meru County have from the 26th of April started receiving cash payments from the Tujiinue Tena climate change and COVID-19 adaptation project launched in September of last year. Farmers who cultivated the crop last season will be paid on delivering their produce to weighing centers across the county. As further good

By George Munene For three months, tomato prices have risen exponentially in the country. From a low of Sh700 for a 30-kilogram crate at the closing months of last year, a similar crate at the farmgate now fetches a premium price of Sh2000. At Nairobi’s Muthurwa market the wholesale price of a medium-sized wooden crate is between Sh7000 and

By George Munene Family Bank has partnered with USAID’s Kenya Investment Mechanism, committing to disburse loans worth Sh500 million to agribusinesses in 17 counties over the next one year. The initiative dubbed ‘Pay for Results’, will provide financing across the dairy, horticulture, livestock and energy agricultural value chains. The counties targeted are Homa Bay, Migori, Kisii,

By George Munene A Ngara company is offering country-wide delivery of double-barreled seed and fertilizer planters that enable quicker, cheaper and easier standing planting. A jab planter can sow 8000-10 000 sq m per day–an efficiency rate that is four to five times faster than conventional planting methods.  The planter can be used for both