Youth in Nandi County have been encouraged to take up opportunities in agribusiness to create self-employment at a time when seven million Kenyan are facing unemployment according to the latest data by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics. In this, the Food and Agriculture Organization in partnership with various government agencies such as the Kenya […]
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Salome Saina is earning Sh20, 000 weekly from pineapples from her three acre farm in Lolkeringet location Nandi County, a fruit she decided to cultivate 10 years ago after abandoning maize farming. “I used to plant maize but the production was low such that we only used it subsistence farming, but since I ventured into
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Nandi farmer Cyrus Kitur is reaping double benefits from his two acre maize farm by growing maize for subsistence use as food and fodder for his livestock. In this he has been able to increase his milk yields fourfold from eight to 32 liters a day while at the same time feeding his family of
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