Hundreds of semi-arid maize farmers shift to high-yielding drought-tolerant rice doubling earnings
Hundreds of previous maize farmers are moving to high-yielding drought-tolerant rice grown in semi-arid areas…
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Agriculture
Latest agriculture stories from across Kenya.
Kitui to recruit 100 extension officers, motors ahead of other counties in farmer training & agriculture improvement
Kenyan farmers with access to agriculture extension services produce 32 per cent more than those…
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Lucky or unlucky: Learn how much your county cares about agriculture
Delivery of agriculture services is up to 23 per cent lower across counties, making the…
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Stevia farming: Little known crop making farmers millionaires, where to buy seeds
Stevia farming is slowly gaining popularity among farmers in Kenya owing to the surging demand both locally and internationally as consumers shift to other alternatives to sugar. The herb used as a natural sweetener contains zero calories,…
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Isaac Nderi: How Meru farmer uses porridge to boost milk production
In the Nkandone area, in IgembeNorth, Meru County, sits Mlinzi Ni Mungu Dairy Farm, one of the most frequented dairy farms in the region. The farm,owned by Isaac Nderi is solely for milk production and hosts 30 dairy cows of Ayrshire and…
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Seed companies look for growers to fill mounting seed gap
Largescale maize farmers are shifting to growing maize seeds for Kenya’s seed companies offering increased…
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Tumbling dollar slashes Kenya’s goat exports
Kenya’s leading meat exporter has seen a 35 per cent decrease in the number of…
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Millet bread a silver bullet to halve Kenya’s wheat imports and slash bread prices
Mixing millet into bread can save the country Sh37 billion in imports, reduce bread prices and…
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How to grow sugar beets: Kenya’s potential answer to its sugar and fodder shortages
Sugar beets are a Kenyan crop of the future that can be processed into as…
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Cureless apple snail terrorises Mwea rice farmers cutting yields by 14%
Cutting his rice production by about 10 per cent for the past four years, Francis…
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Kwale fish farming group cashes in on falling Indian Ocean fish stocks
By Fadhili Fredrick A Kwale fisher group is looking to earn Sh720,000 this year by…
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Castor beans turn arid land into a 9-month cash cow for ENI farmer
A farmer in Malindi has turned five acres of unproductive arid land into a nine-month…
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ENI recruiting 100,000+ arid land farmers to grow lucrative biofuels
Energy company ENI has informed Farmbiz Africa it will be recruiting over 100,000 farmers in…
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Crops that can reach harvest in 2024’s dry short rains
Farmbizafrica has researched the earliest maturing, drought-resistant crops, from maize to tomatoes, for Kenyan farmers…
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Seaweed farming provides a lifeline for drought-ravaged coastal maize farmers
Zainab Kasalu has escaped the poverty of drought crop losses at the coast by farming…
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Farmbiz shares 5 pieces of traditional knowledge enabling pastoralists to thrive in Kenya’s harsh rangelands
Indigenous pastoral knowledge represents less than three per cent of literature on our environment. Yet,…
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Roundup of agriculture jobs in Kenya– 23rd July 2024
1. Position: Programme Nutrition Support Specialist Employer: Food and Agricultural Organization Location: Garissa About the…
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Kenyan mushroom yields are less than half normal levels, driving demand for mushroom courses
Kenyan farmers are buying enough mushroom spawn to meet the country’s accelerating button mushroom demand,…
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Nancy Nyambura: How my animal feeds business broke even in Kayole, Nairobi
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…
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Calliandra fence a 10-year guarantee of increased milk, reduced costs for dairy farmers
Dairy farmers can reposition themselves to increase their milk and reduce costs for a decade…
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Kenyan families turn to common weed as powerful medicine
Jute mallow or mrenda which grows as a weed in Kenyan plots is a wonderfood…
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Tony Kisasati: Chicken farming helped sustain my family, buy land after losing job
In the village of Aroso, Migori County, young Tony Kisasati has managed to turn life’s adversities into opportunities. At his farm, an uncountable number of chickens cluck within the compound. The 28-year-old graduate attended the Kabete…
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Farmers rescue sukuma wiki from yield-slashing, 20-year soil disease
Farmers in Tigoni have broken out of continuous pesticide use to curb 80 per cent…
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State’s plan to improve irrigation sector, produce more food, create jobs
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…
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