By George Munene Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is expected to further push up the price of fertilisers and foodstuffs in Kenya. As a net fertiliser importer, taking in Sh4B worth of fertiliser from Russia in 2020, with the rest coming from the US, Ukraine, and China, Kenyan farmers are expected to be hard hit by …
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Chacha Suguta Matiko has for two years increased his earnings out of his four acre pineapple farm by employing row planting. Row planting as per the conventional horizontal farming or gardening is the growing of crops in a linear pattern in at least one direction rather than planting without any distinct arrangement. It is practiced …
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Farmers who grow garlic can fight over ten pests and diseases linked to destruction of crops which may cause big losses on the farmers’ farms. Garlic is among other crops which has ability to fight pests and diseases. It has an anti-feedant (insect stop feeding), bacterial, fungicidal, insecticidal, nematicidal and repellent properties according to Infonet-Biovision …
Garlic growing serves as natural repellent to over 10 pests Read More »
As opposed to manual honey extractors, bee farmers can enjoy harvesting their honey with limited time and energy using an electric honey extractor that uses electricity to spin the frames that are attached on the central shaft located in the middle of the beehive drum. Electric honey extractor has an electric motor which is connected …
Electronic honey extraction saves time and money Read More »
A low cost storage facility meant to preserve produce for upto two weeks is assisting smallholder farmers stem food waste and sell their produce at reasonable prices at a time when Kenya is losing upto 40 percent of food to post harvest losses. The technology dubbed CoolBot system is an innovation by University of Nairobi …
For Joseph Njuguna a farmer in Nyandarua, farming was a typical exercise of planting and waiting for crops to grow. It was until a visit by the extension officers that he took farming seriously and has now managed to turn his farm into a cash cow. Having land adjacent to Aberdare forest meant that he was …
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Tomato farmers in the country should now worry less about Tuta Absoluta, a devastating pest that has the potential to destroy nearly 100 per cent of the crop on the farm, thanks to Tutrack, a Kenya Biologics kit which monitors and biologically controls the spread of the pest in the farm. The kit comprises a …
Sex trap helps reduce damage of deadly Tuta Absoluta Read More »
A Kisii County mixed poultry farmer has been able to keep off chicken predators for years by using guinea fowls, geese and turkeys Chore Sunda started with two chicks that were eight weeks in 1984, but the challenge of taking care of them at enclosed areas-commercial feeds were rare in remote areas then-made him think …
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Vegetable farmers, who lose up to 50 per cent of their harvest to spider mites, can wipe out the pest using its biological enemy and relative, Real IPM Phytoseiulus. Phytoseiulus persimilis, is a mite that feeds on all stages of the spider mites, therefore, an appropriate and sustainable approach to dealing with the pest without …
Biological pest controls organically cut 50% in vegetable losses Read More »
Farmers growing tagasaste, tree lucerne, can feed livestock for close to 30 years with this hardy, leafy and protein rich fodder shrub. Besides being a nitrogen fixing tree, tagasaste has sweet scented flowers for bees. It is a highly palatable fodder for goats, cows, sheep and other livestock including poultry. Its digestibility is between 77 …
Tree lucerne: Hardy, nutritious fodder that grows for 30yrs Read More »
