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Nyamira school utilises sacks to grow vegetables instead of buying

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Forty Young Farmers Club students of Riomego Mixed PAG secondary school inspired by their Principal Josephine Kerubo embraced urban farming by planting vegetables on multi-storey sacks, a move that saw the school feed the students sustainably while at the same time saving on purchasing the commodity. “For three consecutive years we experienced challenges in feeding …

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Indigenous vegetables provides Narok farmer with steady income

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Farm­ing can be a prof­it­able and ful­filling activ­ity for any­one with a com­mit­ment to pur­sue it as a ca­reer. For Florence Bon­areri of Kil­goris, Narok County, farm­ing has been her main source of live­li­hood. In­come from grow­ing and selling ve­get­ables has en­abled her to af­ford util­ity bills, edu­cate her chil­dren and in­vest in di­verse pro­jects. …

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Double digging irrigation multiplies vegetable yield

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Charles Oloo, a vegetable farmer in Nyamira County earns Sh7500 a week up from Sh3000 from harvesting five bags of cabbage, a factor he attributes to the double dug drip irrigation. “Double dug drip irrigation involves digging trenches to conserve water, adding manure, maize straws, wheat straws, finger straws and banana leaves, as vegetables require …

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Managu acts as organic red mite control in other vegetables

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Farmers can control red mites attack on vegetables by growing the hairy African nightshade, commonly called managu, along orchard borders after a research revealed that the crop ends the reproduction cycle of the pest. Red mite susceptible crops include gooseberry, bitter apple, tomato, eggplant potato, among others. The mites can destroy up to 80 per …

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