Crops to grow for Export to reap maximum returns
A variety of horticultural crops which can be grown for export by smallholder farmers to…
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Agriculture
Latest agriculture stories from across Kenya.
You may not rear pigs but make their feeds and earn too
Piglets eating from sweet potato vines. Pig feeds are expensive, taking up to 80 per cent…
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Maize huller machine saves time for ‘muthokoi’ lovers
Kelvin Kigen of Favour Machinery and Auto Spares explaining how maize huller machine works during this…
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Simple device for trimming fences and weeds
Favour machinery and Auto Spares has introduced a new brush cutter that can trim one…
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Bamboo firm helping farmers grow their own forests
Bamboo plantation. The country has several bamboo types with the most common being Arundinaria alpina, Dendrocallamus…
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Why you should intercrop Napier grass with Desmodium
Napier grass uses nitrogen supplied by Desmodium and therefore saves farmers on costs on top…
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Vitamark Joto livestock salt boosts estrus rate in dairy cows
Some typical signs associated with a cow in heat include increased nervousness, restlessness, mounting, head…
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Long experience makes farmer an all-time county champion
Mzee John Wanjohi Mundui tending to his ram which emerged the best during this year’s ASK…
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Safe and Effective Use of Pesticides
Kelvin Kigen, a sales representative at Favor Machinery Ltd demonstrating how to use a Knapsack…
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Naivasha Flower Farm establishes nutrition garden to supplement staff feeding
Oserian flower farm workers tend to vegetables at the nutritional garden. Oserian Fairtrade Joint Body…
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Queen F1 Cabbage Variety can earn Farmers Ksh. 167,500 in 85 days
Queen F1 is widely adaptable to cool and warm climatic zones (PIC: Japhet Ruto) Smallholder…
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Medicinal Juice from trees can treat over 300 diseases
Thomas Kioko, a medicnal herbal doctor at the 2017 Central Kenya National Show in Nyeri…
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African agriculture: who will own the future?
Agriculture is instrumental in Africa’s poverty: it must also be instrumental in its wealth. Only…
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Beyond Access: Breaking Barriers for Women in Agriculture
I first met Memory in Kasungu, in the Northern part of Malawi. Memory, a mother…
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Cocoa in a world of global environmental changes – time for “uncommon collaboration”
Theobroma cacao.The cocoa sector in West Africa is facing many well-known problems. That is a…
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Seeds, not Diamonds, will Make Africa Great
Dr. Kanayo Nwanze OpinionAs I settle back in my homeland Nigeria since retiring as the…
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Measuring Africa’s agricultural takeoff is set to make billionaires, from ‘poor men’s fields’
Farmer piling his potatoes after harvest. Photo: Flickr/CIP/HKI OpinionAsked where the next crop of African Billionaires…
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Grafted Johnson Keeper apples variety available in Kenya
Grafted apple seedling. Marchlyn Green Forest Farm in Nyeri is selling…
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Factory fronting commercial plantation of bamboo
Edmond Machoki GreenPot Enterprises Limited central Kenya sales representative displays some of the company’s boamboo products…
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Murang’a Farmer Reaping Big from Aerial Yams
Simon Ngure, an aerial yams farmer at his farm in Mathioya, Murang’a County An aerial…
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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…
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Wefarm connects over 300,000 farmers in Kenya and Uganda
A new digital ecosystem of products and services for the world’s 500 million small-scale farmers…
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Diagnosis and Control of Cattle Calves Diarrhea
Recent research showed that most pastoralists believe that calves collect worms from the pasture during…
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Dairy goat farm changing farmers’ lives through trainings
Dairy goat feeding. Poor management of dairy goats is one of the main problems facing the…
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