Crop rotation becomes Bungoma farmer’s silver bullet
A radio program has been the spark that has changed the fortunes of a Western…
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Agriculture
Latest agriculture stories from across Kenya.
Mathare families fly with rooftop farming
Behind overlapping shanties and overcrowded streets is a novel roof gardening project in the Mathare…
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Enterprising youth hatches fortunes with chicken sourcing business
When Denis Musungu 26, quit his job as a hotel manager at one of the…
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Fertilizer loan to fastrack smallholder farmers’ crop production
Western and Nyanza smallholder farmers are counting on a low cost agricultural input loan to…
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Mobile tool connects farmers to timely market information
Ugandan smallholder farmers are benefiting from an ambitious innovative ICT mobile phone initiative that offers…
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Molasses milk booster feed offers dairy farmers cheap alternative
Dairy farmers in Uganda are set to benefit from an improved milk booster feed that…
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Farmer extracts millions from bee venom
Adolph is not your ordinary bee farmer. While most of the farmers keep bees for…
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Academy points farmers to ripe markets
An organization is helping agribusiness entrepreneurs in Uganda and neighbouring countries perfect farming and access…
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Baobab among first orphaned crops to undergo genetic mapping
Baobab, popularly known as the iconic tree of Africa will be the first of the…
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Tobacco to bamboo project heralds low cost housing
A project aimed at encouraging farmers to move from the volative tobacco farming and embrace…
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How an idea bloomed into a flower enterprise
Behind the Sh10,000 monthly profit each member of a self help group in Nyeri county…
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Pact gives Kenyan flower exporters easy US access
A bilateral agreement between Kenya and United States of America to have certain Kenyan goods…
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Farmers speed sweet potato planting with multiplication system
Sweetpotato farmers in Kabondo area located in Homa Bay County and who produce over 60…
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Farmer field schools assist farmers modernize tea production
A school without wall programme is training tea farmers how to cushion themselves from weather…
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Farmers count more yields without fertilizers
A farming method that doesn’t require fertilizer, uses a fraction of water and increases yields…
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Campaign transforms war zones into kitchen gardens
An agricultural organization is rewriting the farming script in the former war ravaged Northern Uganda…
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Export requirements for horticultural produce
As more farmers delve into modern farming, their produce is attracting huge demand locally and…
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Artificial insemination in chicken boosts egg fertilization
A new artificial method of inseminating chicken is underway which is promising quicker and guaranteed…
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Enterprising farmer cuts a niche in banana flour
An industrious farmer from western Uganda tired of the meager earnings from his bananas has…
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‘Queen of urban farming’ earns from Nairobi’s plastic eyesore
Behind rows of succulent tomatoes and towering onions planted in plastics in Nairobi’s Mathare slum,…
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Farm grows water guzzling produce in desert
A farm in the arid Eastern Kenya has grown water guzzling fresh produce for export…
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Women counts on fresh produce to build schools
A group of five single women who benefitted from an organic farming training have managed…
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Banana farmers count on unique fertilizer to increase bunch size, shelf life
A fertilizer specifically targeting bananas which were introduced in the country two years ago has…
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Fertilizer plant to produce 300,000tonnes yearly lowering cost
Farmers in Uganda are set to enjoy reduced fertilizer prices with the launch of a…
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