Nigeria embraces Malay apple as backyard moneymaker
With a harvest potential of 1,000 apples a tree every year, minimal management, and the ability to live for more than a century, the Malay
With a harvest potential of 1,000 apples a tree every year, minimal management, and the ability to live for more than a century, the Malay
When Anthony Mugambi first read that one of Vietnam’s major exports grew in sandy semi-arid soils, he set about importing cuttings: today, the 22,000 farmer
Barriers by seed companies to small rural agrovets are creating a fake seed market that is hurting millions of the nation’s farmers. The World Bank estimates
The area under pigeon pea production in Kenya has jumped 35 per cent in five years as more farmers invest in the in-demand crop that
Farmers in arid Makueni have seen the light in farming high-value fruits thanks to half-moons dug around papaya trees to catch and store run-off rainwater
Farmers in Kenya’s leading potato-producing county, Elgeyo Marakwet, have cut out middlemen and transporters by buying group trucks, tripling their potato profits. By ferrying their
Robert Omusula, a farmer in Bungoma has increased his maize production by 15 per cent by simply reducing maize seedlings from four to just one
1. Position: Head of Department: Food Security, Livelihoods & Climate Change Adaptation Employer: Action Against Hunger USA Location: Nairobi About the position: The holder of
Kenyan beekeepers are looking to penetrate the lucrative European bee venom market which can earn beekeepers Sh6,475 a gram. The global bee venom market has
Organic farmers in Kenya have turned to the neem tree as a cure-all thanks to its powers as a pesticide, fungicide, and nematicide. Daniel Kamau,
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