Mango farmers in Kenya kill fruit flies, seek to regain market
Kenyan mango farmers are losing out on the trillion international export market due to fruit fly infestation. Fruit flies damage 40 to 80 per cent of crops, equivalent to a loss of Sh50 billion per…
Elgon Kenya Director honoured for role in agricultural transformation in East Africa
Agro input company Elgon Kenya’s Director Bimal Kantaria has been feted with a Honorary Doctorate of Humanities degree by the United Graduate College and Seminary International, a US-based theology college, for his efforts at promoting…
Kenya to start commercial growing of BT cotton or GM cotton
Kenya’s Vision 2030 has identified cotton as a key sub-sector with the potential to benefit eight million people in the drier areas of the country. The government is expected to release the Bt cotton…
Government’s new pesticide legislation receive support from Agricultural industry alliance
Robert Ngugi prepares fertiliser from tithonia leaves in his farm in Wendani, Nairobi. The plant is also used to control pests. The agricultural industry alliance is supporting government’s new pesticide legislation Speaking on the…
Tarakwo Dairies Partners With Dutch Semen Importer Firm To Boost AI Services
A dairy cooperative has partnered with a Dutch semen importer, Bles Dairies East Africa Ltd, to directly access the product for high milk production. Mr Timothy Businei, the executive director of Tarakwo Dairies, said the…
County offers tea seedlings to farmers
Tea farmers in Nyeri County are set to benefit from Sh1m seedlings project by the county government targeting more than 35,000 small scale tea farmers, meant to spur tea production. Already the County Governor…
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…
