From environmental officer jobs at Kilifi County, to Customer agronomist at Bayer East Africa in Nairobi and ripening in charge assistants jobs at a Kiambu County avocado farm, this is a roundup of the best jobs in Kenya for the third week of November. 1. Position: Commercial Director Employer: K+S Group Location: Nairobi YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES […]
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As farmers protest across Europe, blockading cities, smashing through police barricades, and dumping manure, European politicians are falling over themselves to promise increased trade barriers against African food and agriculture imports. But how is it that locking out Kenyan horticulture, South African oranges, and Tanzanian sunflower seeds has become such a burning issue for Africa’s
Biochar increases the fertility and water retention of soils for thousands of years, delivering immediate five-fold increases in yields and removing the need for fertiliser. It is also simple to make, which is why FarmBizAfrica is offering prizes for your Biochar-making videos as well as helping improve your farm yield and income for years to
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By the Farmbiz Team These are the recommended colour coding guidelines for pesticide labels as recommended by FAO, which are essential to understand to handle pesticides correctly. Depending on the hazard classification system applied in a country, the responsible authority should assign the colour bands either according to the GHS or WHO, but not mix
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By Emily Okello Bare earth slashes crop yields, making planting between crops, for instance by rotating velvet bean and maize crops, a cheap way to end the need for fertilizer and double commercial yields. Known as ‘green manure’, there is a cluster of crops that radically improve the nutrition of soils between plantings. Grown as
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By Fredrique Achieng’ A visit to Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) Mombasa inspired Luke Kimweli to try a new crop on his one-acre farm in January 2016: a crop that is now earning him Sh840,000 per season from his farm in Emali, Kibwezi. But, within five years, that same crop should be earning him
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By George Munene The move to county administration has transformed agricultural extension, putting farmers in the driving seat, but leaving officers often drowning in individual enquiries. In our series of reports on how individual extension officers are juggling their days, we look, first, at how one officer in Meru is managing to cover the demands.
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By Fredrique Achieng’ A poultry farmer from Kakamega County has reduced his monthly bird feed expenditure from Sh23,500 to just Sh7,050 by substituting commercial feeds with maggots extracted from pig waste. Pigs utilise only 60 per cent of the food they eat, with 40 per cent coming out as waste. But Kakamega farmer Bernard Njaramba
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By George Munene Few Kenyan farmers have access to the milking records and genetic providence of cows theya re looking to purchase, meaning they must rely, largely, on physical features, which can be a fraught affair. But from head to hoof size, there are peculiar considerations across Kenya for picking out the best dairy cows
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