Farmers spend Sh94 to winnow over 500kg grains per hour
Farmers can separate up to 540kg of gains from chaff per hour at a cost…
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FarmBiz Africa
Agriculture and agribusiness publication covering farming methods, markets, livestock, crops, innovation and farmer opportunities.
Gutters zero greenhouse irrigation costs for vegetable farmers
Farmers in areas receiving rainfall can incur almost zero irrigation costs by installing gutter-fixed greenhouses…
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Stove turns killer gas to cooking energy and charcoal from waste
Farmers can convert deadly carbon monoxide gas into cooking energy while making charcoal from waste…
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Piglet teeth clipping stops mastitis
Farmers can cut on sow mastitis treatment costs by clipping piglet teeth on the first…
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Manual decordicator shells 30 times more groundnuts than hand
Farmers can shell over 30 times more groundnuts per person per day using a manual…
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Farmer sells guinea pigs by roasting them for consumers
A rabbit farmer, who visited a friend and found him rearing guinea pigs in the…
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Firm fixes boigas on loans
Small-scale dairy farmers can install adjustable plastic biogas digeters on loans, which are repaid in…
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Yellow staking strings attract tomato pests, expert warns farmers
Tomato farmers using black threads in supporting the plants off the ground can cut on…
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Six months maturing drought resistant arrowroots enter Kenya
Arrowroot farmers can cut growing period by two months by planinting a high yielding and…
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Plastic biogas digesters fit changing livestock size
Men working to lay a plastic digester for one of the GesiShamba farmers. The plastic…
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JKUAT Shujaa Tractor to cut farmer’s tillage costs by five times
Farmers may soon spend about a sixth of the current tillage costs per acre after…
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Farmers to pump water free with JKUAT stream hydram
Farmers bordering high speed streams or rivers can push up to 5000 litres of water…
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Feeding dairy cattle with yeast adds farmers three litres of milk
Farmers giving livestock feeds laced with yeast stand to increase milk out-put by up to…
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Algae-based organic fertiliser doubles crop and livestock yields
A Malaysian-based company, Dynapharm, has introduced a multi-nutrient folia fertiliser that can be administered to…
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KEFRI power saw gauge saves over 25 per cent timber loss
Tree growing farmers can recover more than 25 per cent of wasted timber by fixing…
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Olerai’s Tego maize matures in 75 days for fresh green market
Farmers in semi arid, but humid regions targeting the green maize market can harvest their…
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Factsheet of tripling eggplant fruit size for high-end market
Following the outlined agronomic practices in eggplant production can give farmers three times bigger fruits…
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Smart tool tells farmers cows are ripe for artificial insemination
Farmers can increase chances of knowing when their cows are on heat by more than…
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Coffee farmers to earn more after deliveries to Euopean exporter
Farmers can earn more profits by delivering coffee beans directly to a Machakos County-based Europe…
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Smart system counts eggs, detects diseases for poultry farmers
Farmers can save on production costs, detect diseases and know the output of individual chickens…
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Agripreneur turns waste plastic bottles into aerial vegetable farm
One agribusiness innovator has found a new way of recycling water plastic bottles to establish…
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Neem oil farmer offering elephantiasis remedy to Coast residents
One Kilifi farmer has resorted to locally available neem tree extracts to control insecticides after…
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Detergents give 100 per cent hydroponic fodder and kill germs
Farmers growing hydroponic fodder for livestock can attain 100 per cent germination by washing the…
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Ripe tomatoes sold for 30 days
Farmers can now beat poor prices and accruing losses resulting from rotting of tomatoes by…
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