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Equity & John Deere agreement to improve farm equipment quality

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Equity Group Holdings and farm equipment maker John Deere have signed a comprehensive agreement to offer tractors to the Kenyan market through affordable finance programs for both large-scale and small-scale farmers. The deal was signed during US Ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman’s investment roadshow series to the United States by John Deere Head of Business …

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State-backed affordable seasonal crop lending increased by Sh8 billion

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President William Ruto on Wednesday announced that the government will Increase the budget for the Agriculture Finance Corporation (AFC) for seasonal crop lending from two billion shilling to ten billion shillings to facilitate affordable credit to farmers. The credit will be provided at single-digit rates to reduce the cost of production for farmers and improve …

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Egg Candling: A Cost-Effective Method to Ensure 100% Natural Hatching

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Small-scale poultry farmers can predict with certainty the percentage of chicks to be hatched by testing fertility for eggs against light in a cheap and simple process. The procedure, which is better known as candling, together with other practices, can lead to 100 per cent natural hatching just like in artificial incubation. A farmer does …

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Poor Quality Planting Material Hinderance to Farmers Maximising Yields

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Public and private sectors in agriculture must strengthen channels of supplying high quality crop plating materials to small-scale farmers for maximum yields. In addition, access to information on markets and available varieties would improve production of traditional and contemporary foods that can withstand climate chance effects and other shortcomings. A food production research dubbed Seed …

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Water Harvesting Turns Njoro Peasant Farmer Into Regional Supplier

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A farmer in Njoro area is perfecting the art of water harvesting which has assisted him in irrigating his farm and managed to increased area of cultivation to 12 acres. This even as the cycle of water wastage continues in the country.  According to numerous studies Nairobi, alone, could support six to ten million people …

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New international carbon credit market assist African farmers get loans

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By George Munene A new carbon credit project will assist up to 5,000 small-scale farmers in Kenya, Nigeria, and Zambia to unlock the international carbon market in the developing world. It will give access to loans that smallholder farmers will use to transition to agroforestry at scale and monetize carbon stored in the trees they …

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Nakuru farmer realise full value from soya through value-addition

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A value addition self help group in Nakuru is assisting smallholder farmers diversify their income with the practice of extracting milk from soya beans to make soyamilk being among its most successful venture which is now earning each farmer at least Sh30,000 every month. Reuben Ng’ang’a like any other small scale farmer could only think …

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Mwea company turns rice waste to 3X cheaper high yield organic fertiliser

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By George Munene Based in Mwea, Safi Organics turns rice husks into organic fertiliser that is two to three times cheaper than store-bought fertilisers but gives up to 30 per cent more yield. “A bag of DAP fertiliser currently retails at Sh7,000 and is predicted to rise even higher by the end of the month, …

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Nyamira women get indigenous vegetable market through UN program

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By George .P. Munene The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) project “AgrInvest – Enabling inclusive and efficient private sector investment in agri-food systems” (AgrInvest-FS), in Kenya is supporting the Nyamira North Women SACCO, a women-led Savings and Credit Cooperative Organization (SACCO) to grow and sell indigenous vegetables to, Mace Foods, a …

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