1. Position: Leaf Growing Manager, Kenya Location: Oyani, Kenya Recruiter / Employer: BAT Kenya Salary: Competitive salary package + excellent benefits + market leading bonus About the Position: You will need to drive and manage leaf centre agronomy & extension services to achieve agreed quantity, quality and cost objectives. In addition, you will co-ordinate and …
Weekly Roundup of Agriculture Jobs–11th Sep, 2023 Read More »
Through the pioneering use of professionally trained farmers known as Village Based Advisors (VBAs), Farm Input Promotions Africa (FIPS) Ltd, a Kenyan nonprofit founded in 2003, is disseminating critical agricultural information that is increasing farmer yields by 30 to 200 per cent depending on the crop, farming system, and context. This is securing the food …
Training farmers as extension workers boosts farm yields 200% Read More »
Kenyan agriculture students are getting an 11-month internship opportunity at Israel Arava International Centre for Agricultural Training (AICAT). The annual internship program has trained over 1,000 agriculture students from academic institutes in countries mainly from Africa and Asia. The students are from the University of Nairobi, JKUAT, Egerton University, Kenyatta University, Kenya Water Institute, Turkana …
Kenya agriculture students on 11-month annual Israel internship Read More »
Soya bean is positioning itself as a lucrative commercial crop in Mumias with over 1000 farmers cultivating it thanks to empowerment by research groups and ready market from Promassidor. The leguminous crop is also being hailed as a remedy to the soils that have become ‘tired due to over use. Organized under Mumias District Federation …
Soya growing breaths life into dying Mumias soils Read More »
By George Munene Heifer International, a multinational nonprofit that seeks to end hunger and poverty by investing in farmers is looking to train young dairy, poultry, or livestock farmers helping them start or grow their own agribusinesses. The program run jointly with leading digital microlearning platform Kuza Biashara is looking to promote youth agripreneurship and …
NGO looking to train young Kenyan dairy, poultry, livestock agripreneurs Read More »
By George Munene In Muhaka, Kwale County, Kugawana Spirulina farm grows at least one tonne of Arthrospira Platensis, commercially known as spirulina every year. This is fed as a supplement in food to children in the locality, offering a more balanced diet in a county where malnutrition in children stands at worrying 30 per cent. …
Kwale farm using spirulina supercrop to combat endemic malnutrition Read More »
Joseph Maweu, a mango farmer from Kanzokoea Sub-location in Kathonzweni, Makueni County has doubled his income per season from Sh12, 800 about eight years ago to over Sh121, 000 currently thanks to a farmers’ group he joined which has helped him access, training, inputs and market. Before 2011, Maweu had 18 mango trees that were …
Makueni mango farmer raises income through cooperative Read More »
By George Munene “From an acre of farmland applying the right agronomic practices, certified seeds should harvest a minimum of eighty 50kg bags and can yield up to 200 bags,” says Enoch Rugut an extension officer at Egerton University’s potato multiplication center. Rugut explains that using seeds disseminated between farmers as planting material you are …
