Naivasha Flower Farm establishes nutrition garden to supplement staff feeding
Oserian flower farm workers tend to vegetables at the nutritional garden. Oserian Fairtrade Joint Body…
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FarmBiz Africa
Agriculture and agribusiness publication covering farming methods, markets, livestock, crops, innovation and farmer opportunities.
Heavy rains coming, chance for water harvesting
Damliner full of water. Residents especially farmers in most parts of…
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Queen F1 Cabbage Variety can earn Farmers Ksh. 167,500 in 85 days
Queen F1 is widely adaptable to cool and warm climatic zones (PIC: Japhet Ruto) Smallholder…
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Medicinal Juice from trees can treat over 300 diseases
Thomas Kioko, a medicnal herbal doctor at the 2017 Central Kenya National Show in Nyeri…
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African agriculture: who will own the future?
Agriculture is instrumental in Africa’s poverty: it must also be instrumental in its wealth. Only…
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Beyond Access: Breaking Barriers for Women in Agriculture
I first met Memory in Kasungu, in the Northern part of Malawi. Memory, a mother…
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Cocoa in a world of global environmental changes – time for “uncommon collaboration”
Theobroma cacao.The cocoa sector in West Africa is facing many well-known problems. That is a…
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Seeds, not Diamonds, will Make Africa Great
Dr. Kanayo Nwanze OpinionAs I settle back in my homeland Nigeria since retiring as the…
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Measuring Africa’s agricultural takeoff is set to make billionaires, from ‘poor men’s fields’
Farmer piling his potatoes after harvest. Photo: Flickr/CIP/HKI OpinionAsked where the next crop of African Billionaires…
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Grafted Johnson Keeper apples variety available in Kenya
Grafted apple seedling. Marchlyn Green Forest Farm in Nyeri is selling…
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Factory fronting commercial plantation of bamboo
Edmond Machoki GreenPot Enterprises Limited central Kenya sales representative displays some of the company’s boamboo products…
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Murang’a Farmer Reaping Big from Aerial Yams
Simon Ngure, an aerial yams farmer at his farm in Mathioya, Murang’a County An aerial…
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Study: Organic agriculture generates comparable yields for income and health benefits for farmers
Organically grown kales. Non-use of chemical inputs in organic farming systems generates beneficial effects on…
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Promising sweet potato varieties in Western Kenya
The Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) in collaboration with the International Potato Center…
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Wefarm connects over 300,000 farmers in Kenya and Uganda
A new digital ecosystem of products and services for the world’s 500 million small-scale farmers…
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Diagnosis and Control of Cattle Calves Diarrhea
Recent research showed that most pastoralists believe that calves collect worms from the pasture during…
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Dairy goat farm changing farmers’ lives through trainings
Dairy goat feeding. Poor management of dairy goats is one of the main problems facing the…
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Cricket farming for value addition
Crickets have high protein content compared to soya beans and beef which are among the…
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Farmers can diversify their sources of income by growing grapes
Grape fruits. They can be eaten raw or can be used to process wine and other…
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Fruit farming saving eastern region farmers from erratic rainfall
Farmer attending to her passion fruits. Passion is speedily raising as the fruit of choice…
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African smallholders can double their yields with half the water
Farmer irrigating her cabbage garden. Experts predict that irrigated areas in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1998 to…
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Fall Armyworm Status: Impacts and control options in Africa
The Fall Armyworm (FAW) (scientific name Spodoptera frugiperda) is a moth, native to tropical and…
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Experts: Learn lessons from success to beat malnutrition in Africa
A farmer weeds her maize garden. A report on global hunger says malnutrition in sub-Saharan…
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Africa faces permanent $2bn+ maize deficit if Fall Armyworm poorly managed
Afarmer checks on his maize farm whichj has been attacke by the Fall Armyworm. Biopesticides are…
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