Agricultural Resilience

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Sh18M grant enables Garissa farmer establish thriving grass business

Through a Sh18 million grant from the Feed the Future Kenya Livestock Market Systems Activity, Dahir Haret, a farmer in arid Garissa County, has been able to diversify his income from livestock rearing to cultivating 40 acres of Boma Rhodes, Cenchrus Ciliaris, and Brachiaria grasses as well as 10 acres of fruit trees. Chipping in …

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Young Timau farmer moves from joblessness to earning Sh100,000 from garlic

When Alfred Koome touched down in Kenya from India on September 5, 2020, with a Bachelor of Science in Horticulture degree in hand he had it all mapped out: “I had received positive feedback from resumes I had sent out and was looking forward to getting employed at a flower farm around my hometown of …

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