Twiga Foods, a mobile-based startup, launched B2B mobile platform to be used by small and medium scale businesses to purchase fruit and vegetable stock from local and regional farmers in Kenya saving the farmers the challenges they face with brokers. Before the platform was established, farmers in the country faced a major challenge in dealing […]
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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More than 500 Meru farmers have been allowed to cultivate crops such as potatoes and peas side by side with indigenous trees in a section of the Ontulili forest, Buuri sub-county in a bid to conserve it and increase forest cover in the region. So far more than 700 hectares of the forest has been
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Uasin Gishu farmers have been urged to plant potatoes to improve food security and diversify their sources of income as the county’s main cash and staple food has been affected and destroyed by the fall armyworm and diseases such as maize lethal necrosis disease over the last two years. The county considered as the country’s
Agricultural stakeholders led by the Kenya Health Plant Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) are set to market and promote the growing of potatoes in Kenya as a food of choice to enhance food security. Potato marketing will be done through potato field days set to be organized by all stakeholders in the potato sector in the country.
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