Crops

Potato farm­ers in Bomet and Meru counties are doub­ling yields with a seed treat­ment tech­no­logy that com­bines bio con­trol products...

Banana farmers, who maintain less than eight suckers at a time, are more likely to harvest bunches of more than...

Farm­ers who have tra­di­tion­ally grown sug­ar­cane are find­ing sweeter days re­pla­cing cane with maize and Soya beans in a move...

Small­holder farm­ers in Kenya are em­bra­cing plant­ing trees that do not com­pete with crops for nu­tri­ents a ven­ture that is...

By George Munene Published in 2020, The Potato Crop, is a 500-word, open-access book that gathers contributions by internationally respected...

By George Munene Dutch hybrid potato breeding technology company Solynta and FreshCrop Limited, Kenya’s largest producer of seed tubers, have...

By George Munene According to the Central Bank of Kenya’s (CBK), January 2023 Agriculture Sector Survey, 76 per cent of...

A veterinary officer in Mwingi area of Eastern Kenya is training farmers in the arid area to mitigate against changes...

As the long rain sea­sons starts, 83-year-old Muia Kusenga is re­mov­ing the ac­cu­mu­lated silt from the trenches to cre­ate space...

A char­ac­ter­istic fea­ture of Kenya’s small­holder ag­ri­cul­ture is the dom­in­ance of primary pro­duc­tion. This nor­mally in­volves pro­duc­tion of low volume...