Latest agriculture stories from across Kenya.
The National Irrigation Authority targets increasing the net area under irrigation within five years. Irrigation PS Ephantus Kimotho said there are plans to increase acreage under irrigation from the current 711,993 acres to 1.2 million…
Rwanda has stepped into the Kenyan mushroom market to plug the 17-ton monthly button mushroom…
A walk into Hon. Sumra’s farm in Kajiado and the first thing one will notice is the extremely calm and clean environment where he has kept goats. The setup is comprised of neatly organized structures to ensure his business thrives. Over…
KALRO will launch bird-repellant white sorghum in its shops within six months saving farmers 80…
Cash-squeezed sugarcane farmers are getting an extra harvest and quick money by intercropping fast-maturing canola…
Kenyan farmers are turning breakthrough global technologies into low-cost hacks to hold back the desert,…
CABI continues to be quite advanced in safeguarding livelihoods and food security from the papaya mealybug, with the latest activities concentrating on five additional major papaya-growing counties in Kenya. In what might be a milestone in…
1 Position: Mangrove Forest Office Employer: Nature Conservancy Location: Mombasa Qualifications Desired Qualifications Responsibilities Interested…
Mango farmers are smoking their trees to accelerate their harvests by 20 days and get…
When you visit Nancy Nyambura’s dairy business in Eastlands, in Nairobi, it would not be easy to tell how far she has come. The business is a beehive of activities with customers coming in and out, and orders and supplies going out. “I am…
For over 10 years, Joe Irungu has been farming pumpkins in Murang’a, a venture that has made him quite prosperous. He turned to pumpkins after struggling with herbal medicine. He initially tried growing maize, tomatoes, and vegetables but…
For Kenya’s 4.5 million agriculture businesses, marketing is often the difference between wealth and poverty….
This year’s environment day theme of accelerating land restoration aligns perfectly with Africa’s need to revitalize its soils, a critical yet often overlooked solution to Africa’s ongoing challenges of agricultural productivity. Healthy…
Digging half-moons, Maasai pastoralists have reclaimed unproductive land to grow fodder increasing their herd sizes,…
Hello Tractor has launched a new price model enabling farmers to hire agricultural tools at…
The leading coffee certification body, the Rainforest Alliance, is introducing a new tool to enable…
564,000 kilograms of fertilizer that was donated by Russia never arrived in Kenya. The fertilizer left Russia but somewhere along its journey, it disappeared in the high seas. The missing donated fertilizer was part of a consignment of…
A Meru coffee farmer has doubled his yield by taking a low-cost soil test. The…
1. Position: Consultant (Aquaculture Characterization in Kenya) Employer: WorldFish Location: Nairobi About the position: WorldFish…
Maize farmers are using wasps to eradicate Fall Armyworms at one-fifth of the cost they…
The policy and legislative environment is a key driver of agricultural transformation. Policy and regulatory regimes “define the rules of the game”. They regulate the roles and behaviour of players in the sector, determine resource…
Kenyans are suffering catastrophic falls in staple food production, seeing food prices rise faster than…
Pixie oranges continue to become very popular among Kenyan consumers owing to their higher sugar content than the ordinary large oranges. The fruits are also juicier, and their orange flavor is very sharp. Being a variety of citrus fruits,…
The increase in local coffee tourism has driven up the earnings of large coffee farms…
