Manual decordicator shells 30 times more groundnuts than hand
Farmers can shell over 30 times more groundnuts per person per day using a manual…
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Agriculture
Latest agriculture stories from across Kenya.
Farmer sells guinea pigs by roasting them for consumers
A rabbit farmer, who visited a friend and found him rearing guinea pigs in the…
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Firm fixes boigas on loans
Small-scale dairy farmers can install adjustable plastic biogas digeters on loans, which are repaid in…
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Yellow staking strings attract tomato pests, expert warns farmers
Tomato farmers using black threads in supporting the plants off the ground can cut on…
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Six months maturing drought resistant arrowroots enter Kenya
Arrowroot farmers can cut growing period by two months by planinting a high yielding and…
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Plastic biogas digesters fit changing livestock size
Men working to lay a plastic digester for one of the GesiShamba farmers. The plastic…
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JKUAT Shujaa Tractor to cut farmer’s tillage costs by five times
Farmers may soon spend about a sixth of the current tillage costs per acre after…
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Farmers to pump water free with JKUAT stream hydram
Farmers bordering high speed streams or rivers can push up to 5000 litres of water…
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Feeding dairy cattle with yeast adds farmers three litres of milk
Farmers giving livestock feeds laced with yeast stand to increase milk out-put by up to…
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Algae-based organic fertiliser doubles crop and livestock yields
A Malaysian-based company, Dynapharm, has introduced a multi-nutrient folia fertiliser that can be administered to…
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KEFRI power saw gauge saves over 25 per cent timber loss
Tree growing farmers can recover more than 25 per cent of wasted timber by fixing…
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Olerai’s Tego maize matures in 75 days for fresh green market
Farmers in semi arid, but humid regions targeting the green maize market can harvest their…
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Factsheet of tripling eggplant fruit size for high-end market
Following the outlined agronomic practices in eggplant production can give farmers three times bigger fruits…
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Smart tool tells farmers cows are ripe for artificial insemination
Farmers can increase chances of knowing when their cows are on heat by more than…
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Coffee farmers to earn more after deliveries to Euopean exporter
Farmers can earn more profits by delivering coffee beans directly to a Machakos County-based Europe…
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Smart system counts eggs, detects diseases for poultry farmers
Farmers can save on production costs, detect diseases and know the output of individual chickens…
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Agripreneur turns waste plastic bottles into aerial vegetable farm
One agribusiness innovator has found a new way of recycling water plastic bottles to establish…
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Neem oil farmer offering elephantiasis remedy to Coast residents
One Kilifi farmer has resorted to locally available neem tree extracts to control insecticides after…
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Detergents give 100 per cent hydroponic fodder and kill germs
Farmers growing hydroponic fodder for livestock can attain 100 per cent germination by washing the…
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Ripe tomatoes sold for 30 days
Farmers can now beat poor prices and accruing losses resulting from rotting of tomatoes by…
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Kerosene incubator helps farmer crack poultry agribusiness
A Mombasa County farmer, who had no electricity by the time he entered into poultry…
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Opinion: Finding the sweet spot of Africa’s agriculture
Africa is a continent where, at least outwardly, we like to celebrate our diversity—the rich…
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Machine helps one farmer shell eight 90kg sacks of maize a day
One farmer can shell up to eight sacks per day with the help of a…
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Farmers use weeds to tame crop destroying moles
Farmers are turning to weeds and other tree extracts to eradicate moles and other rodents…
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