Uasin Gishu

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• Crops

Uasin Gishu farmer dumps maize for pumpkins, earns Sh420,000 a season

7 years ago Reporter

After cultivating maize for nine years, Uasin Gishu County farmer Kiptanui Kiplagat has dumped the crop for butternut pumpkins, a...

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• Crops

Uasin Gishu farmer who dumped maize for vegetables does not regret

7 years ago Reporter

In 2013, Naftali Bosire, 29, a Uasin  Gishu based farmer abandoned maize farming to focus on short season crops such...

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• Crops

Government organization encourages Uasin Gishu farmers to plant potatoes instead of maize due to Fall Armyworm infestation

8 years ago Reporter

Uasin Gishu farmers have been urged to plant potatoes to improve food security and diversify their sources of income as...

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• Markets

Uasin Gishu farmers dump maize for pepper

8 years ago Reporter

Pepper farmer harvesting the crop. Photo courtecy. Some farmers from Uasin Gishu County, Kenya's food basket, have shifted to pepper...

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• Markets

Farmers can earn 25 per cent harvest more using P-Mazao fertiliser

8 years ago Reporter

  Maize farmers in the country can earn more than 25 per cent harvest increase by using P-Mazao 102610 fertilizer...

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• Animals

Varsity students invent technology that manipulates sex of fish

9 years ago Reporter

     Fish fingerlings.  University of Eldoret Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Science students have invented a technology that manipulates...