Crops

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...

Agro­Pad: A set of circles on the back of the card provide col­or­i­met­ric test res­ults; the color of each circle...

The pre­par­a­tion time for a tonne of ma­nure from or­ganic mat­ter has been cut in half by a biocata­lyst that...

By George Munene In Kitui’s Mwingi West constituency, young farmer George Mutemi’s investment in irrigated agriculture has enabled him to...

By George Munene Soil testing is the first step toward improving yields and profitability as it gives valuable information that enables...