“According to our research, 75 per cent of East Africa’s millers are willing to fortify their feed with insects to reduce their costs while up to 95 per cent of fish and pig farmers are actively looking to bring down their production costs by incorporating insects into animal diets, said Dr. Tanga Chrysantus, Head of …
Growing insect protein demand by feed makers provides ready market for farmers Read More »
USAID Africa Trade and Investment (ATI) program is inviting applications from Kenyan start-ups in the agriculture value chain to the Sh600 million Africa Food Security and Resilience Partnerships grant opportunity. Run through the Prosper Africa initiative, the program seeks local Small and Medium Scale agricultural enterprises to partner with USAID to address food insecurity and …
USAID invites applicants for Sh600 million African agriculture grant Read More »
Victor Barasa seldom had vegetables in his diet as his love for fast foods was insatiable. His daily meals always a portion of what Nairobians prefer; ‘Chips and chicken’. Little did he know that he was weighing down his health and quickly inviting deadly life style diseases. A time reached when his body could not …
Diabetes diagnosis points Karen resident to soilless agriculture Read More »
A farmer in Nyamira County farmer has increased his milk yield three-fold by crossbreeding local and exotic cattle after shunning tea farming, which is the dominant activity in his Nyankongo Village. Because he never had enough capital to buy high milk yielding exotic breeds at once, Patrick Nyauma decided to uplift his local animals through …
Nyamira farmer triples milk output crossbreeding exotic & indigenous cattle Read More »
As a tray of eggs currently retails for between Sh400-500, spare a thought for Kenyan bachelors. Unfortunately, according to feed manufacturers and egg wholesalers, these prices will be held at least until grain from Kenya’s maize basket, Rift Valley, comes into the pipeline in October. “Feed manufacturers are facing a shortage of maize and soya–the …
Steep egg prices to persist until October on maize & soya shortage Read More »
Fahari Aviation, a subsidiary of Kenya Airways PLC, will deploy high-capacity drones to cover over 3000 acres of tea plantation in less than two weeks for Kipkebe Ltd, a subsidiary of Sasini PLC. This will save an overall 50 per cent on cost and time efficiency in fertilizer and chemical spraying and spreading. Kipkebe farm …
Tea estate to halve spraying costs with drone technology Read More »
Developed in 2017 by the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), push-pull technology, has been shown to reduce infestation by the devastating fall armyworm by 80 per cent. This is in addition to mitigating the effects of the equally deleterious Stemborer pest and Striga weed. First confirmed in 2016 in Nigeria, by 2020, …
How push-pull technology arrests devastating Fall armyworm, Stemborer & Striga weed Read More »
According to a World Food Programme report on Kenya’s food security outlook; drought, rising fertiliser prices, and armyworm attacks have led to a steep drop in agricultural production. Across marginal agricultural areas, the below-average and poorly distributed long rains resulted in below-average planted acreage and moisture stress. Crop failure was observed in Taita Taveta, Makueni, …
WFP: Drought, fertiliser prices, & armyworm drop Kenya’s agri production Read More »
Through a Sh18 million grant from the Feed the Future Kenya Livestock Market Systems Activity, Dahir Haret, a farmer in arid Garissa County, has been able to diversify his income from livestock rearing to cultivating 40 acres of Boma Rhodes, Cenchrus Ciliaris, and Brachiaria grasses as well as 10 acres of fruit trees. Chipping in …
Sh18M grant enables Garissa farmer establish thriving grass business Read More »
By George Munene The Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization Agricultural Mechanization Research Institute (KALRO-AMRI) has manufactured a small grains multi-crop thresher that will help farmers reduce their threshing cost by over 90 per cent while increasing thousandfold the amount of grain produced per hour. The multi-crop thresher will increase farmer profit margin, and labour …
KALRO manufactures multi-grain thresher to increase farmer profits Read More »
