Tanzania’s drive to industrialise its sunflower sector has stumbled for the 2023/2024 growing season on a deal to bulk-source high-yield seeds for the country’s one million sunflower farmers. The deal, funded by the African Development Bank, (AfDB) was meant to deliver 700 tonnes of hybrid seeds. This would increase yields and oil production by up […]
Agribusiness firm Kakuzi Plc has formally adopted a new corporate identity that underscores its commitments to agricultural development for the domestic and export markets. As part of its new branding programme, Kakuzi is set to introduce competitively priced Macadamia Cooking oil in the local market. While noting that Kakuzi is set to unveil a range
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Julius Limo, a small-holder farmer from Simatwet village, some 800m away along the busy Eldoret-Kitale highway, defied the maize growing trend that is popular in the region, to focus on sunflower cultivation, and his effort is paying off. The sunflower plants on Mr. Limo’s four-acre farm are meticulously arranged and their smiling faces appear to
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A polyculture farmer from Loitoktok, Kajiado County who has mastered the art of growing crops organically is harvesting up to 5,000 kilos of pumpkin fruits per season from his one acre mixed farm. Lemaiyan Kithokilo says he has selects a set of crops that can be grown together and help each other in controlling weeds,
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Bidco Africa, a multinational consumer goods company is looking for 25,000 farmers to grow sunflower and soya beans to curb the shortage of the two commodities used in making oil. The company currently has 25,000 contracted farmers who supply 5,000 metric tonnes of sunflower and soya beans against a demand of 10,000 metric tonnes annually.
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Bidco is looking for thousands of farmer mainly young and women entrepreneurs to plant oil seeds that are used in the production of various cooking oil and other products. In a partnership with the KCB Foundation at least 1,000 youths will access guaranteed oil seed markets and another will receive 1,500 internship opportunities. Bidco also
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Sunflower plants. Sunflower meal is entirely adequate as the sole source of supplemental protein in dairy rations. Lack of assurance of quality but expensive feeds from markets is prompting farmers into marking their own feeds for their livestock especially dairy production. This to them not only cuts the cost
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