Limuru farmer hacks vegetable market with Chinese cabbages
A vegetable farmer in Limuru is making up to Sh1.5m per season from growing Chinese…
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FarmBiz Africa
Agriculture and agribusiness publication covering farming methods, markets, livestock, crops, innovation and farmer opportunities.
Farmer’s sukuma wiki variety grows for 10 years
A hardy kale variety that can be harvested for up to 10 years has gained…
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Eldoret artist earns Sh2000 a day selling scarecrows to farmers
An enterprising 32-year-old man in Moi’s Bridge is making up to Sh2000 a day from…
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Kenyan farmer imports world’s best grape cuttings
One of East Africa’s most enterprising orchard managers, Henry M’Tiiri, is working to introduce new…
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The ABCs of napier grass cultivation and management
Napier grass, pennisetum purpureum, was named after Colonel Napier of Bulawayo in the modern Zimbabwe,…
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Motorcycle that pumps water enters Kenyan market
A new cost-effective motorcycle that doubles up as a water pump and transport machine has…
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Kitale farmers earning double profits from Napier grass farming
When the name Kitale is mentioned in Kenya, maize farming quickly comes to most peoples’…
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Tithonia flowers used to make home-made pesticides in Kitale
In December 2015 as I visited my rural home, which is a few kilometers from…
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Crops of 2016: What to plant in May
Clever farmers are doing an evaluation of the year 2015, noting the mistakes they made,…
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Kakamega farmers to get free cows
At least 600 farmers from Kakamega are set to get free dairy cows in the…
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Crops of 2016: What to plant in April
Clever farmers are doing an evaluation of the year 2015, noting the mistakes they made,…
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Crops of 2016: What to plant in March
Clever farmers are doing an evaluation of the year 2015, noting the mistakes they made,…
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Crops of 2016-What to plant in February
Clever farmers are doing an evaluation of the year 2015, noting the mistakes they made,…
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Crops of 2016: What to plant in January
Clever farmers are doing an evaluation of the year 2015, noting the mistakes they made,…
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Growing Cayenne pepper worth KSh1m in Murang’a
In response to an article we published on the great market potential of chilli farming,…
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Nairobi fresh produce expo postponed
A fresh produce exhibition that had been planned for April in Nairobi has been put…
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USAID predicts great year-end for pastoralists
Kenyan pastoralists in arid and semi arid areas are expected to be food secure in…
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UK charity to buy cows for poor African farmers
A campaign dubbed Send a Cow, by UK charity Planting Hope is looking at ways…
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Model bamboo center breeding millionaires
Daniel Kimaru, a 60-year-old pensioner thought of selling his two-hectare farm in Nyahururu in 2011…
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Kenyan farmer film moves world leaders to tears
The story of a Kenyan subsistence farmer, Kisilu Musya, has been made into a film…
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Adults snatch rabbit keeping ‘hobby’ away from their children, making easy and fast returns
Farmers in Kenya are quickly embracing rabbit rearing owing to its , affordable starting capital…
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Sugar milling factory coming up in Narok
Narok County government has signed a deal with Ambeet Sugar Holdings for the construction of…
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Dagoretti farmers try out 2-wheel tractors
Small-holder farmers in Kenya can now use 2-wheel tractors to easily till their lands as…
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Duo arrested switching fertiliser bags
Police officers in Mombasa on Friday December 11 raided a warehouse in Mombasa, where they…
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