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Equity & John Deere agreement to improve farm equipment quality

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Equity Group Holdings and farm equipment maker John Deere have signed a comprehensive agreement to offer tractors to the Kenyan market through affordable finance programs for both large-scale and small-scale farmers. The deal was signed during US Ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman’s investment roadshow series to the United States by John Deere Head of Business …

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Legume inter-cropping doubles traditional crop performance

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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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