Farmers get fast-track aflatoxin tests to save crops as shortage looms
By Lydia Gichuki With a shortage of maize looming, farmers are turning to test kits…
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Farmers cut mango losses by a third with home-made brick coolers
By Jolene Njambi The Rockefeller Foundation through its Yieldwise Foodloss Initiative is showing farmers how…
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Coffee fund launches pre-crop finance for smallholders
By Fredrique Achieng’ and Jolene Njambi The newly formed Coffee Cherry Advance Revolving Fund has…
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Tea industry beats clock picking and transporting in daylight
By George Munene For an industry that seemed to be working nearly 24 hours a…
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Transport problems slashing Kenyan fresh exports, despite demand in Europe
By Lydia Gichuki Kenya is exporting just 30 per cent of its normal level of…
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Fact sheet: Getting a COVID-19 test result letter for drivers to visit or cross borders
By Fredrique Achieng More than 14 test centres are now available for truck drivers and…
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FarmBiz TV: Green maize offers fast route to harvest as shortage looms
By John Matava Green maize is fetching premium pricing, at 16,000 maize plants per acre,…
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Fact Sheet: How farmers can get a permit to transport food through the lockdowns and curfew
By Lydia Gichuki As Kenya has moved into the double restriction of a dusk-to-dawn curfew,…
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Journalist farmer pioneers CCTV-surveyed farming, reports jump in produce and connection
By George Munene CCTV cameras keeping an eye on livestock and vegetables might seem like…
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Capsicum farmer reports sales savaged by missing flights to Asia, and closed manufacturers
By Fredrique Achieng Capsicum farmer Evelyne Mwangi has seen her income fall by nearly three-quarters…
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Fast action needed to head off ‘biblical’ famine
By Jenny Luesby So the numbers are finally coming in: we are going to kill…
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FarmBiz TV: Chicken farmer earns Sh1m in 21 days rearing chicks
By John Matava A farmer is raising Kuroiler hybrid chicks from a day old to…
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70% of Kenyan food locked out of Nairobi, forcing rural prices to nosedive
By George Munene Smallholder farmers who produce more than 70 per cent of the country’s…
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FarmBiz TV: Kalro launches drought tolerant soya bean variety (SB19) doubling earnings.
By John Matava The Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization has launched a new soya…
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Poll shows Kenyans worried about Coronavirus food shortages
By Jolene Njambi More than 320 of 400 Kenyans surveyed by SMS pollster GeoPoll are…
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Industry has pesticides ready for locust spraying, as swarms threaten on delays
By Agrochemicals Association of Kenya (AAK) Kenya has the pesticides to tackle the country’s locust invasion…
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Farmers find Coronavirus business in helping entrants and adding home delivery
By George Munene Coronavirus is playing both health havoc and business havoc with our world….
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Farmers gain financial support from banks as COVID-19 bites hard
By Brian Moseti Farmers are among the professionals in Kenya that financial institutions are looking…
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FarmBiz TV: Butternut offers security with all-year steady pricing
By John Matava Butternut, ready in 12 weeks, is selling at a steady Sh50 to…
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Planning crops to fit the weather forecast delivers certain wealth, claim farmers
By Brian Moseti By the time James Matano was quitting his nursing job to pursue…
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Farmers hold off locusts with neem in hope of timely government spraying
By Brian Moseti For most of February and the early March, Abdi Elema, a resident…
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Predict the weather, make tomato fortunes
Long-range weather forecasts may offer a route to millions in profits for farmers, based on…
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FarmBiz TV: Irrigation Board launches rice scheme to double yields.
By John Matava The National Irrigation Board has launched a new System of Rice Intensification…
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FarmBiz TV: Farmers called to plant to feed through COVID-19
By Aak Though the full impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is yet to be established…
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