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Advanced Modern Beekeeping Management Techniques
Kenya has a huge potential for beekeeping products such as Honey, propolis, wax, bee pollen, bee venom and royal jelly. Many clients are not conversant with modern techniques that ensure…
Kiambu signs deal with exporter to benefit hass avocado farmers
The Kiambu government has signed an agreement with an exporter who will be buying avocados from farmers. The agreement with Mofarm Fresh Fruits Exporters was signed at the county headquarters…
DEMO FARMS; smart investment that can help accelerate the adoption of game-changing innovations in agriculture
Farms that are used to teach agricultural techniques and technologies โ known as demonstration farms โ are a smart investment that can help accelerate the adoption of game-changing innovations. Farmers…
BEE FARMING; The untapped business that is affordable and easier to handle than livestock farming.
Many farmers have not discovered the potential of honey bees farming. Most of us opt for livestock or poultry farming instead. The fear of bee sting can be scary for…
How to grow fast yielding pumpkins this rainy season
Pumpkin, considered a vegetable, is actually a fruit, with the nutrition of a vegetable. Farming pumpkins is common in many countries, with China being the number one producer, followed by…
Farming Sweet Potatoes The Right Way
An acre of land under sweet potatoes has a yielding potential of eight to 14 tonnes in four to six months. Once shunned as a food crop for the poor,…
Book Your Slot On, The Oncoming Mushroom Training & Tour – 6th November 2021
We have scheduled a combined button mushroom farm tour and training at Bannie-el Mushroom Farm in Limuru Ndeiya In broad, the training covers the below details:- Cost of production Structure…
How the Award-Winning Haller Farmers App is helping smallholder farmers with open access to farming techniques and agricultural information.
The Haller Farmers App is an accessible and intuitive way for smallholder farmers in Kenya and East Africa, to access best practice sustainable farming techniques and a Noticeboard, allowing them…
Value of poultry diagnostics for farmers
Infectious disease continues to be the biggest cause of economic loss for livestock farmers. At such a time during a pandemic when input costs are high and margins are being…
The Business Of Pig Farming And What Farmers Ignore
In my work of delivering animal health and production services for 30 years, I have come to discover that livestock farming is interesting, unpredictable, profitable and loss-making too. It is…