February 2022

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to push fertiliser & food prices even higher

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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Migori farmer maximises pineapple yield through row planting

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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Garlic growing serves as natural repellent to over 10 pests

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 …

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Biological pest controls organically cut 50% in vegetable losses

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 …

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Tree lucerne: Hardy, nutritious fodder that grows for 30yrs

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 …

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