December 2021

Eric Munene grew up with sev­eral jack­fruit plants in his homestead in Kibugua re­gion of Chuka, a town on the east­ern slopes of Mount Kenya. However, it was only re­cently that he began to re­cog­nize it as a valu­able plant.  The jack­fruitis a mul­tiple fruit con­sist­ing of sev­eral small one-seeded fruit­lets. The en­tire fruit weighs 4.5-50 kg and is oval, ob­long or el­lips­oid in shape. The fruit, […]

With ir­rig­a­tion bring­ing more ar­able land under cul­tiv­a­tion, sav­ing the amount of water in the pro­cess is a tar­get for every farmer who wants to spend less and earn more.r Dip ir­rig­a­tion, which al­lows for con­sist­ent re­leases of water o tar­get plants, is one of the meth­ods gain­ing pop­ular­ity for sav­ing up to 50 per

Ap­plic­a­tion of mulch­ing and or­ganic ma­nure has helped a kales farmer cut the ir­rig­a­tion fre­quency be­sides en­abling him de­liver kales to the mar­ket con­sist­ently even on dry sea­sons. On dry sea­sons, Kevin Maingi may be re­quired to ir­rig­ate the kales in his one-eighth of an acre daily or after one day. But the dis­cov­ery of