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” …
According to a World Food Programme report on Kenya’s food security outlook; drought, rising fertiliser prices, and armyworm attacks have led to a steep drop in agricultural production. Across marginal agricultural areas, the below-average and poorly distributed long rains resulted in below-average planted acreage and moisture stress. Crop failure was observed in Taita Taveta, Makueni, …
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By George Munene The African Development Bank Group has approved a Sh7.5 billion loan to Kenya to enable the government to provide affordable fertilizer and seeds to farmers ahead of the October-December 2022 short rains and into the 2022/2023 long rains crop production season. This will boost cereals and oil seeds production by over 1.5 …
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According to data from the USDA Foreign Agriculture Office, soybeans, soybean meal, and corn imports have seen a 72 per cent increase from 2012 to 2021. This has been driven by the rise in the cost of livestock feed production. In 2021, Kenya imported $21.0 million of soybean meal– a 97 per cent increase from …
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James Kipkoech inspects his dying maize crop (Photo: Wesley Langat) National Assembly Finance Committee through its chairperson, Joeph Limo has submitted a bill in the August House which if passed will see farmers protected against severe weather conditions such as drought and flood that have over the years caused losses to the agricultural producers. In …
Bill seeking to protect farmers against losses in harsh weather introduced to parliament Read More »
Farmpro Co-founder Kevin Maingi feeds one of their cows with the fodder on February 17, 2017. The fodder doubles milk production besides reducing the cost of production. Photo by Laban Robert. Farmers using the new fodder formulation from Farmpro can double production besides cutting the production cost of one litre of milk by more than …
