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Located off the busy Limuru-Nairobi Road in Kiambu County, Kianjogu village is a fast-growing peri-urban settlement. Many farms in the area host maize, bananas, herbs and dairy cows, with most…
Read moreIt is always disappointing when a farmer plants seeds and they fail to germinate or they sprout but do not take off after transplanting. Among things that cause this failure…
Read moreIt is two weeks since farmer Grace started harvesting her capsicum crop. She is doing it twice a week. She already had a ready market for her fruits, selling to…
Read moreFarmer Moses’ maize crops are currently at tasseling stage, a sign of good things to come in the next few months. Tasseling is one of the critical stages in maize…
Read moreDressed in a black overcoat, Kenneth Mutwiri digs the soil around an arrowroot plant using a machete to loosen it. He then uproots the plant, revealing a tuber weighing about…
Read moreLydia Karegi, a smallholder farmer in Kiereni village in Chuka, tried a number of farming practices in an effort to get better harvests but her yields kept dwindling year after…
Read moreThe Fresh Produce Consortium of Kenya and donor aid agencies have launched a digital communication strategy to increase the export capacity of Kenyan-grown avocados and bananas. FPCK is Kenya’s leading…
Read moreKarama is the managing director of Sulma Foods that sells organic dried and fresh products to the Middle East, especially Doha in Qatar and Muscat in Oman as well as…
Read moreIndigenous vegetables contribute a great deal to our immune system hence the need for farmers to intensify the rate at which they are involved in growing them. According to the…
Read morefOR many years, farmers in Kenya’s lower Ukambani region would be disadavantaged around the months of July and August because of crop failures. But no amount of loss would stop…
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