Tomato farmers count losses as European pest strikes
A tomato disease that wipes upto 100 percent yields in days has hit the country…
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Health
Latest health stories from across Kenya.
Government to reach 7million farmers with e extension
The Kenyan government has embraced electronic extension services in a bid to reach over 5million…
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Sensors help farmers monitor greenhouses while miles away
Greenhouse farmers can now monitor temperature and soil conditions while far away thanks to an…
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Electrician generates light from food waste
An electrician has developed a domestic waste biogas system that uses food wastes, in a…
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Heated human waste to heal Kenya’s sick soil
A researcher is exploring various methods of increasing soil nutrients to Kenya’s tired soil including…
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Moisture meters tame aflatoxin poisoning in Uganda
Ugandan cereal farmers have benefitted from moisture meters which measure the moisture content, preventing post…
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Ugandan farmers court urine to boost soil fertility
Ugandan farmers buffeted by low yields have turned to human urine to fertilize soils with…
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FAO sounds the alarm on world’s most destructive banana disease
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is warning countries to step…
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Mobile soil testing trucks to the rescue of Ugandan farmers
Ugandan farmers are set to benefit from free agricultural training and soil testing, thanks to…
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Mobile soil testing kits salvage Western Kenya soils
Over 800 farmers in Trans-Nzoia have benefitted from a project where researchers are using mobile…
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Scientists unveil disease resistant napier to fight smut disease
Scientists at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (Icipe) have unveiled two superior,…
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Farmers move to organic fertilizer as soil acidity takes toll on yields
Kilifi farmers are slowly courting organic fertilizer in a move meant to shift them from…
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Dried nettles draw fanatical uptake among health conscious middle class
Farmers in Rift Valley are domesticating nettles, a high valued vegetable that was traditionally farmed…
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Livestock urine fights banana diseases in Uganda
Ugandan farmers are embracing a traditionally cheaper therapy of soaking banana buds in livestock urine…
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Kenyan women in diaspora rake millions with health plant
A group of enterprising Kenyan women living in Minnesota US are growing and selling a…
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Livestock insurance takes risk out of livestock keeping
Kenyan pastoralists are recording steady supply of livestock even after dry spells a departure from…
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Farmers earn credits, double yields with soil fertility project
In a bid to earn carbon credits, over 60,000 smallholder farmers from western Kenya are…
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Pollinator diseases threaten global crops
Scientists have warned of imminent new threats to agriculture and food security with discovery of…
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Farmers use anthills to fertilize soils
Farmers in the Yala area of Siaya county are using anthills to fertilize their soils…
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Napier grass woes birth formidable alliances
Napier grass cultivation in East Africa has been on an impressive rise in the last…
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Scientists step up war on East Coast Fever with superior vaccine
A team of scientists from The International Livestock Research Institute has launched a project of…
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Scientists use satellite images to understand land use among farmers over time
A group of researchers have been burning the midnight oil are using data collected over…
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Liming heals western Kenya’s acidic soils, boost farmers’ income
The chronically acidic soils of Western Kenya has meant endless woes to the farmers in…
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Farmers device new ways of produce preservation to beat rising temperature
As temperatures reach unprecedented levels bringing new challenges of post harvest preservation of produce, farmers…
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