Sugar beets are a Kenyan crop of the future that can be processed into as much sugar as cane in half the time and provide livestock with fodder that is similar in quality to expensive cereal grains. This double use is projected to grow global sugar beet demand by 5.5 per cent every year, taking […]
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Cutting his rice production by about 10 per cent for the past four years, Francis Migwi, a Mwea rice farmer, describes the apple snail as a cureless terror for the scheme’s farmers. According to the agriculture research institute CABI, he might be among the lucky ones with the average farmer at the scheme losing 14
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By Fadhili Fredrick A Kwale fisher group is looking to earn Sh720,000 this year by growing fish on six ponds to meet the rising demand for fish at the Coast caused by the Indian Ocean’s falling fish production. Researchers have found that 70 per cent of Indian Ocean fishers in Kwale County reported a decline
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A farmer in Malindi has turned five acres of unproductive arid land into a nine-month castor-bean cash cow with biofuel outgrowing that is now being sharply expanded by energy company ENI. The castor plant, which produces continually for nine months after three months of growth, is drought-tolerant demanding a warm climate with temperatures between 20°C
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Energy company ENI has informed Farmbiz Africa it will be recruiting over 100,000 farmers in Kenya to grow castor and croton seeds from September 2024. The company recruited 25,000 small-scale farmers in 2023 increasing its number of contracted farmers to 90,000 in 11 counties. Through a $210 million investment from the Italian government and the
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Farmbizafrica has researched the earliest maturing, drought-resistant crops, from maize to tomatoes, for Kenyan farmers to get harvests from the 2024 short rains – predicted to deliver 50 per cent less rain than last year over little more than six weeks. According to the International Center for Humanitarian Affairs (ICHA)-KRCS, Kenya has a high likelihood
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Zainab Kasalu has escaped the poverty of drought crop losses at the coast by farming seaweed 600 meters out into the Indian Ocean. As part of the Kibuyuni Seaweed-Self-Help Group in Lunga Lunga, Kwale County, Zainab now gathers seaweed daily to deliver a steady income of Sh36,000 each six weeks where she was previously earning
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Indigenous pastoral knowledge represents less than three per cent of literature on our environment. Yet, this knowledge has been passed down for 5,000 years enabling pastoralists to drive 25 per cent of Kenya’s national economic production. Basele Galgesa the Director of Programs & Partnership at the Pastoralist Peoples Initiative–a pastoralist-focused non-profit– that is spearheading the
1. Position: Programme Nutrition Support Specialist Employer: Food and Agricultural Organization Location: Garissa About the Role: The Project Nutrition Support Specialist will work in consultation with the FAO Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Specialists and in close collaboration with the agriculture and health ministries at county level; the Specialist will support implementation of the nutrition aspects of
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Kenyan farmers are buying enough mushroom spawn to meet the country’s accelerating button mushroom demand, but only getting half the expected yield, driving demand for mushroom production courses. According to the country’s main button mushroom spawn-producing centre, the Mushroom Growing Resources Centre at JKUAT, it, alone, sells 350 litres of mushroom spawn every month, which