October 2023

Machakos farmer keeps family fed through simple terracing and crop rotation techniques

William Ndolo is a family man with two wives, ten children, and six grandchildren. Yet with just an acre of land in the climatically harsh Machakos county, he is able to comfortably feed his extended family and produce a surplus for sale which then educates the children. This, a sharp contrast to tens of farms […]

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Climate-smart agriculture helps farmers adapt to changing climate

Farmers in Nyando, Western Kenya are shifting from maize farming and ordinary livestock keeping to climate-smart agriculture that helps them adapt to the changing climate. The rough and dusty road leads us to John Obuom’s homestead in Kowalla village Nyakach district, Kisumu County. Obuom has taken up rearing of gala goats and Red Masaai sheep which

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Farmers turn to fruit farming to maximise incomes

As the market for traditional crops becomes saturated and diseases ravage traditionally lucrative crops like maize and wheat, farmers keen on maximising their income are turning to fruit farming which has seen them more than triple yields and incomes. From yellow and purple passion fruits, Red Royale pawpaws, bass avocados, and apples, vanguard farmers have

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Farmers increase production 50% through professional information sharing

Kenyan farmers have increased production in selected crops by upto 50 percent and increased farm earnings to 30 percent thanks to professional networking which has facilitate information sharing and exchange. According toInternational Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) , the networking has been the catalyst that has seen farmers change farming practices, embrace quality farm inputs and

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Integrated soil fertility management triples farmers’ yields

Over 1.8 million smallholder farmers from sub-Saharan Africa have embraced integrated soil fertility management in a bid to triple yields and foster food security in Africa after extensive training as conventional fertilisers and chemicals take a toll on soil fertility. According to a new report released by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa

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Smallholder farmers join hands to buy irrigation equipment

As erratic rainfall takes its toll on crops, smallholder farmers are joining hands to embrace irrigation with a group in Kilifi contributing about Sh350 each to buy irrigation equipment. “We realized by pulling our resources together, our members would be able to afford irrigation tools which they can’t on their own. Now when we get

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Former accountant earns from red worm rearing and breeding

Peter Kanyagia a former accountant is earning up to Sh100,000 every three months rearing and breeding red worms which are in demand by farmers in organic farming who use them to create manure used to grow organic crops. The process of putting worms in the farms dubbed vermicomposting involves placing worms in beds with the

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Kisii women group employ banana value addition to avoid wastage

A group of women in a savings group buffeted by banana glut in Kisii area have found fortunes in value addition which has tripled their earnings while opening up new business ventures that has provided employment to over 2,000 youth. Started fifteen years ago as a merry- go-round 15 years ago, Kenyuni Women group watched

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Sugarcane juice-making enterprise earns 5* more

A childhood love for sugarcane for Charles Odira has metamorphosed into a juice-making enterprise that is earning him five times more than he earned selling the cane. His passion for anything sugarcane was inspired by his father who used cane juice to make jaggery commonly known as sukari nguru. Delving into the trade after finishing

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Changing weather plummets farmers’ harvests

Timothy Kiongo has grown maize, beans, and soya in his one-hectare piece of land for the last 50 years. Every harvest he gets 25 bags of maize, but since 2015 he is lucky to even get five bags per hectare. Timothy is among thousands of smallholder farmers in Kenya who have been hit hardest by

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