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High-yielding and drought tolerant Carmen F1 cucumber variety earns Sh225,000 a season

Growing a high-yielding and disease resistance Carmen F1 cucumber variety can earn a farmer up to Sh225,000 thanks to best practices such as growing the crop within a greenhouse and proper market research. According to Wycliffe Obwoge, an agronomist running a Nairobi-based agribusiness organisation’s greenhouse, one plant can yield up to 25 kilogrammmes by the […]

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Roasting soil helps deal with bacterial wilt

Soil heating system. Bacterial wilt is one of the soil-borne diseases that attack tomatoes, potatoes, pepper, capsicum, among other solanaceae family crops. Bacterial wilt causes massive loses and there is no effective remedy against this infection. Farmers and agribusiness companies are roasting soil to kill the Ralstonia solanacearum bacteria before growing their tomatoes. Wycliffe Obwoge,

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Uasin Gishu farmers dump maize for pepper

Pepper farmer harvesting the crop. Photo courtecy. Some farmers from Uasin Gishu County, Kenya’s food basket, have shifted to pepper cultivation at a time when maize has disappointed farmers. October last year the government through the Ministry of Agriculture offered farmers Sh3,200 per 90kg bag of maize slightly above Sh3,000 for the same quantity of

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High-yielding and drought tolerant Carmen F1 cucumber variety earns Sh225,000 a season

Roasting soil helps deal with bacterial wilt

Uasin Gishu farmers dump maize for pepper