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Kenya’s food prices remain high due to fuel prices, weak shilling & El Nino effects

According to USAID’s food insecurity tracker FEWS NET, staple food prices in Kenya remain high despite the country recording above-average harvests due to high fuel prices and the high cost of importing agriculture goods as the local currency continues to depreciate against the major international and regional currencies. Since the start of 2023, the price […]

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Western youth farmers double yield, access ready markets through USAID program

Farmers have doubled their maize yield through the USAID-sponsored Kilima Tumaini (Mount Hope) youth group in western Kenya. They have also obtained a ready market for their grain in the World Food Program (WFP) and the Kenya National Cereals and Produce Board. Stanley Kimeli’s Success Story One such farmer, Stanley Kimeli has seen his harvest

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Transforming East African Farming with Climate-Smart Villages

Innovative Approach Boosting Resilience in East African Agriculture A remarkable model is empowering a particular community to collectively adapt to changing weather patterns through alternative farming practices. This initiative has successfully spared millions of farmers across East Africa from drought, revitalizing barren farms and mitigating the impact of climate change. Revolutionizing Agriculture: The Climate-Smart Villages

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Weed tolerant maize for Western Kenya does well in both short and long season rains

Farmers in Western Kenya can now grow the KSTP 94 weed tolerant maize variety developed by the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization. KSTP 94 is resistant to striga, a parasitic weed that causes up to 100 per cent crop failure in affected farms.   According to the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT),

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New app to help western Kenyan farmers diagnose plant diseases using satellite data

A screenshot of plant diagnosis results with PlantVillage app. Photo courtesy. Researchers from Penn State University have developed a smartphone application program, PlantVillage that through satellite data will enable cassava and maize farmers from Western Kenya scan and analyse diseases affecting their crops and take immediate, proper remedy actions. According to a 2016 research by

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Western Kenya to receive rains for the next four days, says Weatherman

Farmers in counties in the Lake Basin region and highlands west, central and south of the Rift Valley can plant their crops as the regions will continue receiving rain for the next five days according to the Kenya Meteorological department.  These includes the counties of Siaya, Kisumu, Homabay, Migori, Kisii, Nyamira, Trans Nzoia, Baringo, Uasin

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Promising sweet potato varieties in Western Kenya

The Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) in collaboration with the International Potato Center have developed five promising sweet potato varieties for small-scale farmers in Kenya. Under the national performance trials, the five varieties Kemb 10, Kemb 23, SPK 013, SPK 004, and Japanese 420009 pumpkin have shown outstanding yields beyond the local varieties

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