Farmers with limited pieces of land can keep up to 20 hives within an area of about 240 square feet by constructing temporal structures a few metres from homesteads. Bee rearing Nyabwaroro Self-help Group Chairman Ezekiel Ndege said the simple timber structures help in restraining animals and human beings from disturbing the bees besides maximising …
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World Vision Kenya has launched a new technology that will help smallholder farmers increase tree yields in their farms. The new technique called Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is a low cost rapid and easily replicated approach to restoring and improving forests, agricultural and pasture lands. It is based on encouraging systematic re-growth of existing …
New technology helps farmers increase tree yields by 34 to 38 per cent Read More »
A Nyamira farmer who lost more than two thirds of his tomatoes due to bacterial wilt disease three years ago is now harvesting approximately 30 crates of tomatoes in his farm thanks to Kilimo Bora whatsApp group that has helped him better manage the disease through shared knowledge from other farmers. The group which was …
The Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service in collaboration with World Vision last week supplied over 60,000 orange fleshed sweet potato vines to farmers in Elgeyo Marakwet and Bomet counties in the Rift Valley at a time when maize production is affected by the fall armyworm menace that destroyed approximately 800,000 hectares of land in 2017 causing …
Government gives free 60,000 orange fleshed sweet potato vines to farmers Read More »
Principal Misambi Secondary School (in a red shirt) receiving a 10,000 liter water tank from Mr.Ogongo, Nyamusi World Vision representative One harvest morning in 2015, Reuben Ogendi, a small scale tomato farmer went to his small farm in Nyamusi division, Nyamira County expecting bumper harvest. Unfortunately, about two thirds of his tomato crops had …
World Vision partner with Farmers’ group to help farmers in Nyamira Read More »
