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Elections are over : Focus shifts to new leaders on proposed coffee sector reforms
The elections are over. And the focus is now turning to incoming leaders and whether they will embrace reforms proposed by a team of experts to turn around the fortunes…
Agriculture and the wine industry
Agriculture is a key pillar of Kenya`s constitutes over half of the country`s GDP and plays an important role in food security, a source of employment and also foreign exchange…
KTDA imports 88,000 tonnes of fertiliser for smallholder tea farmers
Kenya Tea Development Agency Management Service Limited (KTDA MS) has imported about 88,000 metric tonnes of NPK 26:5:5 fertiliser for distribution to small scale tea farmers countrywide this financial year.…
Climate change forces Kenyan government to change tact on food security
Kenya has always relied on Maize and wheat production for its domestic as well as exports needs. Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and South Sudan are grappling with a severe drought which…
45,000 Kenyan farmers to get EABL deals in Sh15bn investment
Beer maker East African Breweries Limited (EABL)โs, planned Sh15 billion factory in Kisumu will see up to 45,000 farmers contracted to supply sorghum which the firm uses to produce Senator…
New Standard for Kenya Fruits and Vegetable Exports
The Kenya horticulture sector is set to undergo major changes as the country fights to consolidate its international markets, the Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya (FPEAK) Chairman Apollo Owuor…
Sourcing constraints, grain scarcity and importation lags are biggest factors in maize flour pricing
The Cereal Millers Association (CMA) would like to thank the Government for its intervention in assuring food security for the population by releasing 450,000 bags of maize from the Strategic…
New KCC set to pay dairy farmers Sh500m debt
At least 100,000 farmers owed millions of shillings by the Kenya Cooperative Creameries (KCC) dating back decades ago will be paid by end month. The company, since renamed New KCC,…
REPORT: Youths turning to farming as a side-hustle business are thriving
A new report indicates that millennials (young people aged between 18 and 35) are turning to farmingย as a side-business, with many striving to turn side-hustles into their main focus through…
Kenya dairy farmers want feeds fund to cushion against biting drought
By STANLEY KIMUGE Milk producers are asking for a scheme similar to the countryโs strategic food reserves to enable them stock sufficient animal feeds to cushion them against effects of…