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JKUAT researchers encourage farmers to grow hybrid Chinese millet

Researchers from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and the Chinese Center for Agricultural Resources Research (CARR) are sensitising farmers on efficiently cultivating and managing the nutritious, high-yielding, drought, and disease-resistant Chinese hybrid foxtail millet. The millet variety takes about half the time to ripen compared to most local varieties and adapts […]

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Farmers to thresh three bags of sorghum per hour with new JKUAT machine

Small scale farmers can thresh three bags of sorghum per hour with the new Jomo Kenyatta University cereal thresher with a petrol engine. “Some farmers in western Kenya are facing challenges in threshing sorghum for sale to the East African Breweries which has contracted more than 50,000 farmers to supply them with the produce,” said

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Researchers develop a simple transporter machine which can be used to carry farm produce

JKUAT tricycle which has a capacity of carrying 750 kilograms at a time. Photo courtecy. University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) researchers have developed a simple three wheeler machine called tricycle with a capacity of carrying up to 750 kilograms of farm produce from one point to another and has 200 cc engine capacity as

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University receives machine to control aflatoxin from Mexican government

The Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology has received a machine meant to control aflatoxin in crops such as maize in a bid to boost food security and health at a time when 3.4m Kenyans are staring at starvation due to a drop in maize production, Kenya’s staple food. In 2004 for instance, 125

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Grafted mango variety doubles Kitui farmer’s yields

A Kitui County farmer is enjoying improved annual yields from grafted mangoes in his one acre farm from 500 fruits per tree to 1000 fruits after abandoning growing local varieties of mangoes Stephen Musyoka who used to grow traditional variety of mangoes is one of the beneficiaries of free trainings on grafted mangoes offered in

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New crop rolled out with potential to end hunger in East Africa

Acclimatization of breadfruit seedlings in the greenhouse at JKUAT. PHOTO/JKUAT A new crop with the potential to end hunger in the larger East African region has been introduced by the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT). The new crop known as breadfruit is a staple crop grown in the Pacific Islands and is

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Using agricultural waste to grow mushrooms

Mushroom farming in Kenya is steadily gathering pace as one of the preferred sources of investment in agribusiness with a promise of quick returns. (Pic: Farmbiz Africa) Farmers intending to grow mushrooms for sale can use farm waste from their farms to grow the sweet food produce. Mushroom is not a rain fed crop, and

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