Tomatoes and capsicum lift youths’ fortunes
Kenyan youth are minting quick money with tomatoes and capsicum which have become the latest…
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Agriculture
Latest agriculture stories from across Kenya.
Companies step up war on horticultural pests with new innovation
A growing Kenyan middle class keen on their health and with an affinity for spending…
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Market for organic produce
A meteoric rise in demand for fresh produce grown organically by a health conscious middle…
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Kenya bets on high value sorghum to boost yields
Kenya plans to introduce an improved variety of sorghum in 2016 that has a 20…
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Low cost pest arsenals rescue Kenya flowers
Kenya flower farmers are increasingly feeling the heat of exports markets rejecting their flowers with…
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The class four dropout who found money and fame in soil
Ronald Nyagaka is a class four dropout who earns a minimum of Sh30, 000 a…
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Former civil servant turns farm into award winning food basket
Rows of towering green maize stand next to banana plants sprouting from the earth like…
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Organic food certification standards Uganda
Despite the increasing demand for organic foods globally, Ugandan farmers are yet to reap from…
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Coffee finds its mojo in modern pest control arsenals
Kenya’s coffee, famously christened green gold, has undergone an interesting metamorphosis but weathered odds to…
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The rosy tale of Mugo Flower Farm
As coffee and tea disappoints farmers due to cut throat competition in the world market…
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Online agribusiness directory brings markets closer to Ugandan farmers
An app that points Ugandan farmers to agricultural services and players, from farm to folk,…
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Uganda mulls fingerprint tracking to tackle fake seeds
Tony Kaganda is a maize farmer from Jinja Uganda. Over the years, the youthful farmer…
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Maize shelling takes toll on farmers’ earnings
Farmers in breadbasket areas of Kenya are spending upto 15 percent of their earnings shelling…
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Farmers bear brunt of accessing markets solo
Kenya farmers’ preference to sell their grains on their own is hurting them with majority…
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Kenya looses on Bt cotton fortunes as peers rake millions
As the world embraces Bt cotton for its superior traits in fighting the voracious Bollworm…
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SMEs turn to agriculture to grow profits
High yielding crops that weather dry spells, a blossoming export market and a huge appetite…
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Dairy farmers milk fortunes with new finance model
A new dairy credit financing model is giving anyone interested in dairy farming easier ways…
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International markets open up to Kenya’s cosmetic leaves
Kenyan farmers engaged in the farming of the little known tea tree also referred to…
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Nut farmers crack profits as local demand soars
Kenyan nut farmers are a happy lot. The growing demand for the precious nuts in…
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Flower farmers lose millions to sap sucking insect
A minute, less than a sixteenth of an inch long, black slender insect that resembles…
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Farmers tame post harvest losses with homemade innovations
Fiona Mukami, a widow and mother of three in Mwea area of Kirinyaga County systematically…
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Nestle rekindles coffee’s glory with hybrid variety
An initiative by Nestle Kenya to supply Central Kenya farmers with seedlings of a higher…
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Health conscious Kenyans drive cultivation of neglected thorny fruit
A thorny and spiky fruit vilified by most Kenyans for its strange look and taste…
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Prison warder cross breeds tomato with Sodom Apple
A prison warder in Kiambu county has grafted the much vilified Sodom apple with tomatoes…
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