End Of The Road For Unscrupulous Traders As Potatoes Packaging Regulations Take Effect
It’s a new dawn for potato farmers in Nyandarua, and in other 14 potatoes growing counties, as the new packaging regulations took effect across the country. The Crops (Irish Potatoes) Regulations 2019, which were gazetted…
A Guide on Tissue Culture Banana Farming in Kenya
Bananas can grow in most regions of the country. Giant cavendish, Grand nain and Mbogoya are good ripening varieties while Uganda green is a good cooking variety. Where can I get seedlings? You can get…
Sorghum Farming In Kenya, an emerging opportunity in arid areas
Sorghum is an important cereal that is utilised worldwide as food, feed and industrial raw material. The crop is fairly drought-tolerant compared to maize, thus, it is quite popular in drier areas where agricultural and…
A Major Boost To Miraa Farmers In Kenya as Israel Market Opens-Up
Local miraa farmers have received a major shot in the arm with the start of exports of the produce to Israel, helping to cushion against loss of key European markets three years ago. Miraa traders…
Sugar industry faces exacerbated decline and extinction on proposed regulations
Kenya’s sugar industry has many natural advantages, almost all of which have been undermined by policy and public mismanagement that has seen its productivity slump. As a result, when import protection ends, supposedly next year,…
Sugarcane farmers in Kenya chase government to follow law in forming regulations
Sugarcane farmers in Kenya have put the proposed 2018 sugar regulations before the Parliamentary Committee on Delegated Legislation to rule on the regulations’ failure to follow the law with rules that achieve the best results…
County encourages coffee farmers to join cooperatives
Nandi Governor Stephen Sang with farmers when he flagged off the distribution of the coffee seedlings “My government under the docket of agriculture and cooperative development will distribute more seeds and seedlings to farmers through…
New technology enables potato growers in Nyeri harvest seeds in just three weeks
Potato farmers in Nyeri won't grapple anymore with shortage of seeds after as seeds growers adopted new technologies, aimed at promoting the availability of clean seeds to farmers in all potato growing zones in…
FINALLY: Armyworm Resistant Maize Breed Unveiled
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (Cimmyt) will roll out the three varieties of maize that are immune to armyworm invasion, even as the government reports that the damage from the pests will be worse…
Sunflower farming provide fortune to farmers in Mandera-Irrigation
Mandera Sunflowers Sunflower farming is sparking a revolution of sorts against conventional crops by its sheer lucrativeness in the heat soaked area around Rhamu and neighbouring villages in Mandera County as pastoralists cum farmers venture…
