Kenyan farmers benefit from innovative climate risk financing scheme
Machakos County in eastern Kenya is generally sunny with dry weather conditions and often gets below normal rainfall. Despite this condition, the weather trend has not deterred communities living in the region from farming activities.…
Farmers in Kirinyaga Count Losses as Whiteflies Invade Farms
Farmers in Kirinyaga County are counting losses as whiteflies destroy their crops. “The flies congregate on the underside of leaves, lay eggs and suck out the plants’ fluids while injecting toxic saliva,” Jackson Karani, a…
Free market far more advantageous for the sugar sector than the current heavily regulated regime
The sugar sector employs over 250,000 Kenyans and supports six million livelihoods. Yet it has become one of the country’s loss-making ventures. Not because the industry is not viable and that farmers don’t have the…
Kenya, Uganda conduct joint mass vaccination of livestock along the border
The exercise which started last week in Kacheliba Pokot North Sub County has seen 300,000 cows vaccinated in a free joint mass vaccination of livestock against the Contagious Bovine Pleura Pneumonia (CBPP), Lumpy Skin…
A billion programme by World Bank to benefit Farmers in Bungoma
The World bank programme to benefit over 20,000 farmers in Bungoma County Over twenty thousand farmers in Bungoma County are set to benefit from a one billion shillings National Agriculture and Rural Inclusive Growth Program…
Kenya Dairy Board to revise the proposed milk regulations
Milk producers will not be barred from selling to neighbours as long as it is within the radius of two kilometres, according to revised proposed regulations by Kenya Dairy Board. The regulator has also reviewed…
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,…
Microsoft to help Kenyan startups in software to predict eruption of crop pests and diseases.
Global IT giant Microsoft will facilitate commercialisation of a female-led Kenyan startup whose software solution helps farmers predict eruption of crop pests and diseases. Speaking at the close of a 16 week LEAP Engineering Acceleration…
Kenya and the Netherlands signs bilateral cooperation in agriculture.
Kenya and the Netherlands, on Monday signed terms of reference for bilateral cooperation in agriculture. A horticulture technician examines a rose flower-crop on March 1, 2010 at the Hamerkop flower farm in the Kenyan lake-side…
COG and senate committee blame treasury for under funding agriculture
Both senate agriculture committee and the council of governors observed the allocation of per cent of national budget was inadequate for agriculture sector. The council of governors and the agriculture committee at the senate…
