A startup is revolutionizing beekeeping in Kenya by introducing the first remote beehive monitoring system that is tripling the earnings of 3,240 beekeepers. Pollen Patrollers uses small sensors that are placed in the hive to monitor bees and capture detailed information on the health of the hive which has seen farmers improve their honey production […]
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Processors are paying farmers supplying milk directly 41 per cent more than what those selling to cooperatives are getting making them the biggest earners from formal milk sales in 2024. The Kenya Dairy Board’s report on the Cost of Milk Production in Kenya, 2024 highlighted that of farmers who sold milk through formal markets, those
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This week’s round up of agricultural jobs in Kenya spans the recruitment by Turkana County of more than 20 animal health, fisheries, and agricultural officers, as well as wseveral farm managers, and agriculture of quality assurance positions. Employer: Danish Refugee Council Position: Location Overall purpose of the role: The economic recovery assistant, in conjunction with the Team Leader,
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Millet which used to be a feed for cheap brown porridge, has become a new recipe superfood, driving up its imports into Kenya. Because of their rich nutritional benefits, millets are considered nutraceuticals or nutritional pharmaceuticals. This is because they are completely gluten-free super grains that lower the risk of diabetes, heart disease, and blood
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Farmer who has created chicken feed out of common pond weeds cutting feed costs by 40 per cent has won nearly Sh1M in cash for his inspiration and innovation. Samuel Kimani, the founder of Azolla and Duckweed Poultry Meal, beat out 800 other applicants to be announced as the 2024 AYuTe Africa Challenge Kenya winner
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Solar incubators have enabled a farmer in Bomet to move from just selling kienyeji eggs to hatching and selling his own improved day-old kienyeji chicks quadrupling his income. Every month for the last two years Gilbert Korir hatches at least 400 KARI-improved kienyeji, Kuroiler, and Kenbro chicks from his two solar-powered incubators. He sells these
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A biogas maker is transforming the economy of Dunga Beach in Kisumu by using water hyacinth to produce biogas that powers a communal kitchen, commercial chicken brooder, and fish dryer. Every day Dominic Kahumbu, the CEO of Flexi Biogas, and two of his employees take a boat into Lake Victoria not to fish but to
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Pastoralists are turning the invasive and poisonous Mathenge weed into an animal feed with high protein to rescue them during Kenya’s worsening droughts. Isiolo and Garissa counties have invested in Mathenge Maisha Animal feed while in Baringo farmers are using mathenge (Prosopis juliflora) seedpods as the main ingredient in making animal feeds that are an
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The iCow Soil Advocacy programme is pursuing the change of farming practices by equipping agronomists and trainers in how to restore soil to lift smallholders’ yields. As a reporter with a background in agriculture, I enrolled in the programme to gain firsthand insight—and it turned out to be transformative. I first learned about the programme
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An NGO has begun buying macadamia, doubling the earnings of farmers who previously relied on exploitative middlemen as the only buyers of their nuts. Selling their macadamia nuts to One Acre Fund, since 2022 over 20,000 macadamia smallholder farmers in Central Kenya are earning Sh130 for a kilogram of their nuts, a massive improvement from
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