Predict the weather, make tomato fortunes
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
April 14, 2020
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Former Nakumatt supplier turns to YouTube to train growers and make sales
Evelyn Wangari, a mixed farmer at Kitengela holding one of her fully grown chicken. She uses YouTube to sell her produce and share farming tips with
September 5, 2019
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High-yielding and drought tolerant Carmen F1 cucumber variety earns Sh225,000 a season
Growing a high-yielding and disease resistance Carmen F1 cucumber variety can earn a farmer up to Sh225,000 thanks to best practices such as growing the
March 15, 2019
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Adding crushed egg shells to the soil and watering thrice a week controls blossom end rot in tomatoes
Farmers can control blossom end rot in tomatoes by adding crushed egg shells to their plants and watering at least thrice a week. According a
March 11, 2019
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Kenyan startup develops mobile-based service to save farmers the difficulty in dealing with brokers
Twiga Foods, a mobile-based startup, launched B2B mobile platform to be used by small and medium scale businesses to purchase fruit and vegetable stock from
September 12, 2018
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Roasting soil helps deal with bacterial wilt
Soil heating system. Bacterial wilt is one of the soil-borne diseases that attack tomatoes, potatoes, pepper, capsicum, among other solanaceae family crops. Bacterial wilt causes
July 3, 2018
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Crop rotation scales high Nyeri farm production at between 15-20 tonnes of produce per acre
Nava Farm in Nyeri County is growing potatoes, tomatoes, beans, garlic and red onions on rotation that has kept its production all-time high of 15-20
June 11, 2018
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Company contracts farmers to supply supermarkets with onions, tomatoes, kales, spinach and mushrooms
.Organic Farmers Market, a company that was founded in 2010 and promotes health eating habits provides a platform for farmers to sell their vegetables directly
May 4, 2018
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Cabbages, kales and tomatoes earns graduate Sh120,000 in profits in three months
A Nandi County farmer, Zabdi Chumba is earning approximately Sh120,000 in profits every three months after abandoning maize farming in 2015, a crop he had
April 26, 2018
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