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A poultry farm has rid itself of mites, which had killed 569 of its laying chickens, chicks, and ducks, by...
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By Francis Ndungu A small-scale avocado export farm is using lightbulb-lit tins of used diesel oil to get rid of...
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Uganda coffee farmers have turned to alcohol traps to clear 70 per cent of coffee twig borers which have been...
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Moringa leaf spray is offering a rescue to farmers from wheat leaf rust, found in 70 per cent of Kenyan...
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By Francis Ndungu An avocado farm has increased its fruits by 150 per cent and avoided its exports being rejected...
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Onion net bags and watchdog eagles are assuring smallholder sunflower farmers of 100 per cent harvests who previously shared half...
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Ugandan farmers are turning bamboo smoke into an organic fertiliser and pesticide that boosts vegetable yields and replaces expensive pesticides....
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Lacewing insects are replacing pesticides by eliminating up to 98 per cent of aphids in potato, tomato, capsicum, and eggplant...
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A farmer in Siaya has fought striga weeds that had made her farm unusable and won by uprooting and burying...
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Tephrosia, a herb more commonly referred to as ‘fish bean’, delivers a double blessing of repelling moles that clear out...
