Crops

By Henry Jami Mang’eni Only 63 per cent of Kenya’s land has a title, which makes it hard for farmers to buy land. However, if you are looking to buy private land with an official title, here is the journey I took to purchase 24 acres of farmland in Mwahera-Kilifi county. The first step was […]

Farmers in all parts of Kenya except the Western sector have been warned to wait until April before planting their crops as the March- April- May 2025 long rain season will be delayed. In a bulletin released yesterday, the Kenya Meteorological Department’s director, Dr. David Gikungu, advised farmers in all parts of the country, apart

A farmer in Kiambu has increased his tomato harvest by one-quarter by improving the calcium of his soil with eggshells and bones. Ethan Njeru, who grows greenhouse tomatoes at his family farm in Kiambu, started using these unconventional calcium sources in 2021 after fertiliser prices hit a historic Sh7,000 high.  Up to 80 per cent

A dairy farmer has increased his milk output by 30 per cent by replacing green Napier with red Napier.  After replacing his acre of regular Napier with red Napier last year, Ian Thiong’o, who keeps five Friesian cows at his farm in Nakuru, has seen his daily milk production per cow increase from 10-14 liters

1. Position: Learn pathway lead Employer:SNV Netherlands development organisation Location: Nairobi The LEARN Pathway Lead is a senior position which involves engaging with partners at high-level to rethink the learnings between regenerative agriculture (RA) and productive use of renewable energy (PURE) systems. The project aims to shift mindsets and drive systems transformation through the three

FarmBizAfrica, with its agenda of reporting ways for farmers to double production and reduce costs and find markets for their crops, is launching a series of farm tours to the best and most profitable farm innovations it reports. The tours which will take place across Kenya have been designed to give farmers hands-on experiences on

Hundreds of Mt. Kenya farmers have been left with ‘unsellable’ rumex plants that they planted in March last year after the buyer, Salushi Empowerment Organisation, sold them a seedling at Sh2,000 and promised to buy back the crop’s roots for Sh10,000 a kilogram closed shop and disappeared. While the farmers will not get the promised

Kenyan experts are running a demo day showing farmers how to make bamboo smoke, which Ugandans combine with chicken tea to blend a perfect organic fertiliser and pesticide that is halving their pesticide use and improving their crop yields. On 7th March, Cookswell, the makers of energy-saving jikos and kilns, will host a training session

An onion farmer has cut her spend on farm workers making onion transplanting holes from Sh12,000 an acre to about Sh5,000 as well as halving her planting time thanks to a jua kali drum roller planting assistant. The onion dibbler or hole driller, made from a metal drum, speeds up the planting process by creating multiple

Farmers are increasing their maize yields by 40 per cent by letting weeds grow and digging them back in giving their farms some free manure. Albert Rotich, a maize farmer in Trans-Nzoia informed us that he has gone from getting 10 bags to 14 maize bags per acre since he started letting weeds freely sprout