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To continue to be productive farmers must resort to smarter methods of farming
The New Year, 2022, has come with some challenges for farmers. The cost of farming is now a lot higher than before when one thinks of the rising prices of…
Reasons Rift Valley Farmers Are Uprooting Maize For Hass Avocado Farming
That Trans-Nzoia and Uasin Gishu counties are Kenyaโs breadbaskets is not in doubt. However, a wind of change is sweeping across the region with farmers embracing export crops like avocado…
A Major Challenge Facing Coffee Production Today
In most coffee producing areas this harvest season, the commonest crime is coffee theft. The thieves who normally act during the night invade gardens and harvest the crop or they…
Kenya divided over pesticides ban to align with EU Green Deal
The Kenyan farming community is divided over efforts by lawmakers to bring their regulations on pesticides in line with the EUโs green deal. Industry groups warn that a ban could…
Elgon Kenya partners with The University of Nairobi to develop first of its kind agriculture technology and innovation centre
The agriculture sector in Kenya has received a major boost following a partnership between two leading institutions to set up a technology and innovation centre, the first of its kind…
How Covid-19 Lockdowns Threatened Vital Informal Urban Food Trade
The significance of the informal urban food trade cannot be overstated. The trade provides linkages between small-scale farmers in rural areas and consumers in urban areas, this makes it key…
Join the Revolution of Industrial and Agricultural mechanizing in Africa
The benefits of mechanization in 2021 and beyond abound, and if Africa is to move to forward economically, in industry and even agriculture, the local industries must embrace mechanization and…
Precautions To Help You Unlock Success To Dairy Farming
Investing in dairy farming ought to be done cautiously in order to optimise efficiency of available farm resources, or, simply put, to help you do more with less. Taking precaution…
Picture-based insurance cushion Kenyan smallholder farmers from climate change
As climate change worsens, millions of smallholder farmers across sub-Saharan Africa grapple with unprecedented weather changes and influxes of pests and diseases that ravage their farms and devastate their livelihoods.…
Covid-19 Key lessons for Improving the Resilience of Farmers and Entrepreneurs
The conditions imposed by Covid-19 exposed many flaws in the agriculture value chain and the Micro and Small Enterprises (MSE) sector. However, every cloud has a silver lining, this exposure…