crop yields

Mumias farmers cash in on golden grains

Groundnuts and soybeans are a priority grains value chain with highest potential to increase the incomes and impact livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Butere-Mumias, within Kakamega County of western Kenya. This is according to a survey done by the Kenya Agricultural Productivity Project (KAPP) in the region. Butere-Mumias with a population of 601,796 (Kenya Population …

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KALRO informs soil liming can double crop yields, launches farmer handbook

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 …

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Govt projects bumper 40M maize bag harvest owing to subsidised fertiliser

From reported early maize harvests, the government projects that the country will have a great harvest of over 40 million bags for the long rains season alone. This is more than the entirety of the 2021 production year (36.7 million bags). State officials say this owes greatly to the government’s subsidised fertiliser program that has …

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President announces Sh2,500 fertiliser price, outlines bright future for agriculture

President William Ruto today announced the commencement of the second phase of the government’s agriculture subsidy program with the price of a 50-kilogram bag of fertliser now retailing at Sh2,500 down from Sh3,500. He pointed out that yesterday, Tuesday, a record 34,000 bags of this subsidised fertiliser was sold to farmers. For the coming short …

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Drought Tolerant Crops Project Assists Arid Farmers Get Bumper Harvest

A drought tolerant crops project in the vastly dry Mtito Andei area is assisting farmers sow and reap from the desert with farmers earning upto Sh100,00 from sale of crops that would ordinarily not even sprout in the area. Mary Kyalo one such farmer has been planting pigeon peas, maize and beans, but often times …

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Fanya Juu terraces guard soil erosion, double farmer yields

Over 50,000 smallholder farmers in Eastern and Central Kenya are recording a more than doubling of yields and reduced soil erosion after embracing a soil conservation scheme that involves digging trenches in hillsides to trap runaway water and soil. The scheme christened Fanya Juu which is practiced in areas with low or high rainfall involves …

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intercropping

Legume inter-cropping doubles traditional crop performance

Farmers growing traditional crops like maize side by side with legumes are recording more than double increase in yields and cutting down on fertilizer spend as legumes fertilize the soils at 20 percent more than synthetic fertilizers. While farmers have long intercropped legumes like beans, cowpeas, groundnuts and pigeon peas with maize and millet, it …

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Farmers advised to grow drought-resistant crops as weatherman warns of failed short rains

By George Munene The Kenya Meteorological Department has advised farmers to plant early maturing and drought-resistant varieties of crops, fodder, and pasture as it warns of a fifth consecutive unsuccessful rainy season over the October-November-December (OND) 2022 short rains season. According to its just-released report ‘The Climate Outlook for the October-November-December (OND) 2022 “Short Rains” …

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Human urine gives equal crop yields to chemical fertilisers

By George Munene According to a guide on The Use Of Urine In Crop Production by the Stockholm Environment Institute, urine is a well-balanced nitrogen-rich fertilizer that can replace and normally gives the same yields as chemical fertilisers in crop production. In field research done in Burkina Faso, the yields from urine-fertilized crops did not …

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Liming improves yields of depleted Western Kenya soils

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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