One Kakamega County farmer has cut organic fertiliser costs in maize production by rearing three pigs, which are helping him break down organic waste into manure. Wycliffe Ochango said converting organic waste into manure by normal decomposition takes months, but the pigs are ‘catalysing’ the process. “Instead of waiting for one to three months for …
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Despite the benefits of liming adoption, only about eight per cent of farmers utilise it on their soils. This is due to the limited knowledge and awareness about lime application and benefits of lime. The abundance of lime in Kenya, which can sustain the country for over 900 years accelerates the need to tap into …
Most farmers across the country remain unaware that soil acidity reduces crop yield by almost 50 per cent regardless the amount of fertilizer you use. This poses a major threat to the agricultural sector– the country’s economic backbone. Through a comparison done on farms where liming was applied production doubled, a small holder farmer in …
KALRO informs soil liming can double crop yields, launches farmer handbook Read More »
The Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC) has opened nationwide applications for the 2023 Vijana na AgriBiz Competition which aims to fund youth and women with innovative commercially viable ideas in agribusiness. According to a statement by KCIC, “The competition aims to tackle barriers that prevent youths from harnessing the vast potential within the agricultural sector. …
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Small-scale poultry farmers can predict with certainty the percentage of chicks to be hatched by testing fertility for eggs against light in a cheap and simple process. The procedure, which is better known as candling, together with other practices, can lead to 100 per cent natural hatching just like in artificial incubation. A farmer does …
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In a small village in Nyanza area, a farm has caught villagers attention and attracted thousands of visitors from as far as Nairobi keen on learning how it manages to produce bountiful harvest with no fertilizer applied. Yet this is a journey Caleb Omolo, the owner of the farm, has walked through to prove to …
Fertiliser-free Kisumu Farm Provides Blueprint for Permaculture Farming in Kenya Read More »
Anne Chepng’eno, a farmer from Molo is growing potato crops for seeds in a bid to address the current shortage of the seeds helping farmers from all over the country to access them. Currently there is potato seed demand of 100,000 tonnes in the country while basic demand by other seed multipliers is 1000 tonnes. …
Molo potato farmer capitalises on seed shortage with 20 acre multiplication farm Read More »
The chronically acidic soils of Western Kenya has meant endless woes to the farmers in the area, but a new method of applying lime to the tired soils is changing fortunes and rekindling hope to thousands of farmers who had abandoned farming. In 2008, Isaac Ochieng Okwangi from Nyangera, Siaya harvested just two 90kg bags …
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Sallholder farmers in Kenya are embracing planting trees that do not compete with crops for nutrients a venture that is paying off with some of the trees even fertilizing the soils while offering the farmers extra income. The practice known as agroforestry has been championed by government and other agricultural institutions as having returned impressive …
Smallholder farmers use trees to fertilize soils & extra income Read More »
Weeds tell farmers the kind of soils they have and crops to grow on them Farmers can easily tell the type of soils in their farms by simply observing the type of weeds that grow in it. This is a cost -free and accurate method of soil sampling that can save farmers from hefty laboratory …
