Long-range weather forecasts may offer a route to millions in profits for farmers, based on this year’s experiences with tomatoes. For the one certainty about tomato prices for Kenyan farmers has been that there is no certainty. Prices can swing from barely Sh15 a kilo to over Sh100 a kilo from season to season and […]
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The government through the ministry of agriculture has ordered the New KCC to pay dairy farmers Sh33 per litre up from Sh25, representing an increase of Sh8 per litre of milk the producers shall now deliver to the cooperative. This follows President Uhuru Kenyatta’s economic directives to revamp the country’s dairy sector when he also
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Potato and tomato prices have gone up by 50 per cent over the last two months due to raging floods that have cut off roads making it difficult for farmers to transport their produce to the markets. The price of a 64kg box of tomatoes according to the ministry of agriculture’s commodity pricing for instance
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