AGRA scales food security resolve with new programme
Kenyan smallholder farmers long buffeted by failed rains, dwindling arable land, access to credit facilities…
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Health
Latest health stories from across Kenya.
Superior kale varieties boost harvests, fight diseases
Sukuma wiki farmers in various areas of the country are recording a harvest boom thanks…
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Private companies package fertilizers to tame deficit
As Kenyan yields become depressed due to poor soils that are nutritionally deprieved, Kenyan private…
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Scientists target silkworms to contain Malaria
Scientists at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology are using the small factories…
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Fighting aflatoxins an orphan at a time
Behind rows of worn out desks, a feeble table, old tins and a group of…
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African farmers fix sick soils planting legumes
Depleted and tired soils have cost African farmers US$4 billion each year in lost productivity,…
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Farmers return to nuts as cure boosts crop’s immunity
At a time when Kenyan farmers are grappling with old and emerging macadamia diseases which…
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New tomato variety battles wilt disease
A new tomato variety resistant to bacterial wilt disease has been unveiled to Western Kenya…
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Project to tame malnutrition through mobile phones
Kenya is among Sub Saharan African countries set to benefit from a mobile phone project…
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Tired soils put future food availability at risk
The increasing degradation of earth’s peak soil through over cultivation and nutrient mining is putting…
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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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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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