farm management

Ruiru Single Women Farmers Build Day Care Schools With Fresh Farm Proceeds

A group of five single women who benefitted from an organic farming training have managed to build two day care schools in Ruiru at an amount of Sh 700,000 with the proceeds they have gotten from supplying fresh produce to traders at Nairobi’s Wakulima Market. Having fled their different home due to harassment from their …

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Small-scale farmers raise incomes 50% with cheap food preservation techniques

Growing demand for dried foods especially by a rising local market and exports has birthed a new revolution, with the demand which has risen by upto 30 percent seeing smallholder farmers increase income by upto 50 percent. The dried foods which increase the food’s shelf life has been commended for stemming food wastage. In Murang’a, …

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Little upkeep, lucrative returns: Why galla goats are a perfect side venture

By George Munene Mcharo Mbogho’s word of ad­vice for any would be goat breeder is that they need an abid­ing pas­sion for the an­im­als and the art, without which they won’t weather the tough times that al­tern­ate with the good in goat farm­ing. In three loc­a­tion in Taita-Taveta County, he has 450 heads of mostly …

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Muranga avocado exhibition and conference

Avocado society mobilising for increased production as more markets expected

Guests having a glance of some of the products shocased by various exhibitors during the National Avocado Ehibition and Conference at Murang’a University of Technology. Photo: Oyugi Zablon.  Avocado Society of Kenya is encouraging farmers to venture and increase commercial production of the crop as the country expect more export market from China. The country …

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