Why Kenya must now learn the meaning of a hazard and of a risk: or die
The modern world is built on chemicals, be it medicines we apply, or cleaning fluids,…
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FarmBiz Africa
Agriculture and agribusiness publication covering farming methods, markets, livestock, crops, innovation and farmer opportunities.
Pineapple wines and vinegars add high-fashion niches for exporters as demand grows
Pineapples are the second most exported fruit in the world, after bananas, but with demand…
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Chia offers Sh1m an acre per year as new wonder crop
Chia farming is a new arrival in Kenya, but production of the annual herb is…
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Mango rises as healthy food for Middle East/ US / EU driving accelerating Kenyan exports
Rising awareness of mangoes as a healthy food is fueling accelerating world demand for the…
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Garlic farmers earn six times more than regular onion farmers
Timothy Mburu a farmer from Naromuru, Nyeri County says he struck gold four years ago…
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Wajir youth launches online marketing and vet services for pastoralists
Driven by their childhood experience of a nomadic lifestyle where they witnessed their parents lose…
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Baringo milk farmer adds Sh46,000 a month to income by switching to Boma Rhodes fodder
Jackson Keitany, a dairy farmer from Kiplombe in Baringo County is now making Sh19,000 profit…
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Hass avocados earn twofold as compared to other varieties
Hass avocado farmers in Kenya can earn over two times as compared to their peers…
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South Africa importer buying tonnes of sesame (simsim) seeds from Kenyan growers
Farmers producing sesame seeds, locally known as simsim now have a chance to sell the…
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Move to ban pesticides being used to curb locusts and Fall Army Worn will lead to crop devastation, warn growers
Agricultural and industry organisations have today called on the government of Kenya to intervene to…
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Graduate develops biofuel for household cooking from water hyacinth
Eric Gathirwa Kariuki, an Alumni of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology has come…
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Urban dweller turns to growing own food to fix ill-health
Before 2015 Victor Barasa, a resident of Karen, one of the leafy suburbs of Nairobi…
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25 cooperatives behind Nyeri County milk boom
Dairy farmers in Nyeri County seem to have embraced the importance of dairy cooperative societies…
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State to offer milk market for dairy goat and camel farmers
In a bid to offer market for dairy goat and camel farmers in the country…
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Half a kilo to one kilo increase of dairy meal after calving maintains milk production
An increase of between a half a kilo and one kilo of the dairy meal…
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NYS Tumaini base producing clean potato seeds for farmers using new technology
National Youth Service (NYS) at its offices in Tumaini, Nyandarua County is employing new technology…
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JKUAT selling nine varieties of indigenous vegetables released by KEPHIS
Consumers and producers of African indigenous vegetables in Kenya and beyond can access quality seeds…
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Tea farmers set to enjoy 50 per cent payments on monthly deliveries
Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) has promised to pay farmers no less than 50 per…
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New KCC to pay farmers Sh8 more per litre of milk delivered
The government through the ministry of agriculture has ordered the New KCC to pay dairy…
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Government intensifies marketing, distribution of Aflasafe to help farmers fight aflatoxin
Kenyan farmers will now be able to access Aflasafe, a natural product that fights aflatoxin…
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Good news as China cuts export duty levied on Kenya’s avocado from 30 to 7 per cent
Kenyan avocado traders exporting the fruit to China are set to enjoy export duty levy…
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Government to establish livestock Embryo Transfer facility to boost breeds
The national government is set to establish a livestock Embryo Transfer (ET) facility courtesy of…
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Nairobi’s Karen farmer bets on unpopular snail farming for cash
Snail farming is not yet very popular in Kenya, but it has been there in…
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Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University paying Sh5,000 per kilogram of crickets
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University (JOUUST) through Africa Center of Excellence in Sustainable use of Insects…
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