Crops

Nettle leaves soaked in water provide an organic fertiliser rich in crucial nutrients that boost plant growth and improve crop...

From agricultural shows to seminars on dairy technology and food processing, these are our picks of June and July events...

With a harvest potential of 1,000 apples a tree every year, minimal management, and the ability to live for more...

Barriers by seed companies to small rural agrovets are creating a fake seed market that is hurting millions of the nation’s...

The area under pigeon pea production in Kenya has jumped 35 per cent in five years as more farmers invest...

Farmers in arid Makueni have seen the light in farming high-value fruits thanks to half-moons dug around papaya trees to...

Robert Omusula, a farmer in Bungoma has increased his maize production by 15 per cent by simply reducing maize seedlings...

FarmbizAfrica this week awarded its biochar prize to Boniface Mwangi as new evidence shows that farmers can increase yields fourfold...

Smallholders in Kenya are facing an urgent need to rescue their soils following Kenya’s worst floods in three decades to...

Millet is rising as a food of choice on growing evidence it manages diabetes, preventing the debilitating and deadly consequences...