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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 other farmers. Photo courtesy. In 2016 after Nakumatt, a Kenyan supermarket chain stopped buying Evelyn Wangari Kuria’s English cucumbers due to the sorry state of the retail chain, the graduate-farmer

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Carmen F1 cucumber

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 crop within a greenhouse and proper market research. According to Wycliffe Obwoge, an agronomist running a Nairobi-based agribusiness organisation’s greenhouse, one plant can yield up to 25 kilogrammmes by the

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twiga foods mobile app

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 local and regional farmers in Kenya saving the farmers the challenges they face with brokers. Before the platform was established, farmers in the country faced a major challenge in dealing

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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 to supermarkets within Nairobi.  In this, the farmers pay Sh350 market participation fee once per week to enable them sell the produce in shopping malls within Nairobi. There is also

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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 grown since he was in primary school. The farmer supplies vegetables such as cabbages and kales to schools, groceries and consumers within Nandi County and its environs. The amount he

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