Amaranth can easily be mistaken for just another pesky weed. And while those who don’t see it as a weed may plant amaranth as a vegetable, Ann Muthoni, a nutrition expert, is seeing it through to its full potential, by making a unique flour out of it. “My company produces one tonne of amaranth flour …
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A value addition self help group in Nakuru is assisting smallholder farmers diversify their income with the practice of extracting milk from soya beans to make soyamilk being among its most successful venture which is now earning each farmer at least Sh30,000 every month. Reuben Ng’ang’a like any other small scale farmer could only think …
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A French beans farmer in Ngoliba, Kiambu County, who lost about Sh100,000 four years ago due to the lack of a ready market as she harvested, has since adopted relay planting on now 15 acres to give her a constant harvest that is generating an income of Sh150,000 a month. Starting off in French beans …
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