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 …
Brian Moseti Six years ago, Solomon Mulema was preparing to shut down his dairy farm in Vihiga County, after unsuccessfully trying to turn a profit following consistently low yields. Mulema, who had taken up dairy farming after retiring as a school teacher, spent most of his pension purchasing six expensive cows, some costing up to …
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The Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO) is commercialising three new high-quality passion fruit varieties in a partnership with buyers Coca Cola and other stakeholders, to better position farmers to take advantage of the rising demand for the fruit and its juice. The three varieties known as Kenya passion fruit number 4 (KPF 4), …
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By Jolene Njambi. Solar technology for irrigation can triple profits for growers within one to two crop seasons, compared with using other forms of irrigation systems and rainfall, according to a new report. International non-profit organization Winrock International, which specializes in solving social, agricultural and environmental challenges, has found solar water pumps increase farmers’ gross …
Sunculture offers pay-as-you-go solar pumps that experts say can triple profits Read More »
A French beans farmer in Ngoliba, Kiambu County, who lost about Sh100,000 four years ago due to the lack of a ready market as she harvested, has since adopted relay planting on now 15 acres to give her a constant harvest that is generating an income of Sh150,000 a month. Starting off in French beans …
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