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• Markets

Tanzania’s drive to industrialise sunflower sector stumbles on stalled seed subsidy scheme

2 years ago Reporter

Tanzania’s drive to industrialise its sunflower sector has stumbled for the 2023/2024 growing season on a deal to bulk-source high-yield...

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• Markets

Kakuzi enters Kenya’s cooking oil market as part of rebranding effort

3 years ago Reporter

Kakuzi Managing Director, Chris Flowers, board chairman, Nicholas Nganga, and State Department for Crop Development PS Harsama Kello examine the...

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• Crops

Former maize farmer finds a new paying off venture in sunflower

7 years ago Reporter

Julius Limo, a small-holder farmer from Simatwet village, some 800m away along the busy Eldoret-Kitale highway, defied the maize growing...

2 min read

• Crops

Kajiado farmer producing 5,000kg of pumpkins a season through organic farming

7 years ago Reporter

A polyculture farmer from Loitoktok, Kajiado County who has mastered the art of growing crops organically is harvesting up to...

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• Markets

Bidco Africa looking for 25,000 farmers to grow sunflower and soya beans

8 years ago Reporter

Bidco Africa, a multinational consumer goods company is looking for 25,000 farmers to grow sunflower and soya beans to curb...

2 min read

• Markets

New sunflower and soyabeans market opens up for Kenyan farmers

8 years ago Reporter

Bidco is looking for thousands of farmer mainly young and women entrepreneurs to plant oil seeds that are used in...

2 min read

• Animals

Own feed assures livestock farmers high production

9 years ago Reporter

Sunflower plants. Sunflower meal is entirely adequate as the sole source of supplemental protein in dairy rations.  Lack of assurance of...