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Mulching beats new herbicide restrictions on export products

As the horticultural consumer countries move to blacklist one of the commonest chemical used in controlling weeds, roundup, after links of its active component to cancer, experts say conservation agriculture and other strategies offer farmers one alternative solutions of penetrating the export market. The United States of America’s California state will on July 7, 2017 …

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Why he abandoned maize and wheat for hay production

A Narok County farmer is earning more than Sh500, 000 annually from hay production, after abandoning maize and wheat farming in favour of Boma Rhodes. The county is known for wheat and maize production. But farmers have consistently faced marketing challenges such as dismal prices, bad roads, exploitation from middlemen and poor storage facilities leading …

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