Article Archive

• ► 2013
  • ► June
    • • Super tomatoes pay off on the table and pockets
    • • The arsenal that protects Kenya from domestic and foreign pest threats
    • • Fact sheet: Financing options for Kenyan farmers
    • • Kenya bets on Hass avocado to up exports
    • • Masts to measure weather and refrigerate vaccines
    • • Farmer quenches locals' thirst with weed juice
    • • Kakamega farmers go regional with hangover curing herb
    • • Group uses sticks and metal rods to find underground water
    • • Farmers delve into chameleon farming for export
    • • Satelite technology to curb illegal fishing
    • • Farming colleges to redefine Ukambani farming
    • • City women use old tyres to grow vegetables
    • • The crops that keep pests away from your farm
    • • Western farmers target higher income with Amaranth milling plant
    • • Smallholder farmers delve into flower farming tripling yields
    • • Kenya chases lost export billions with web application
    • • KARI launches farmer friendly tool to detect livestock plague
    • • Kenyan scientists set for GM banana trials to fight wilt
    • • Students make nutritious oil from fish waste
    • • Greenhouse farmers loose yields to ignorance
    • • Scientist launches high yielding,striga resistant maize varieties
    • • Banana charcoal saves livelihoods and forests
    • • Grass arrests soil erosion, cleans up soils
    • • Farmer uses wire mesh to fight aflatoxin
    • • Government mulls agribusiness course in schools
    • • Farmers earn from egg shells
    • • Experts pitch for money that grows on trees
    • • Maasai farmers harvest runoff water turning barren lands to oases
  • ► May
    • • Health conscious customers drive cultivation of neglected yam
    • • Kisii youths add value to 19 farm produces
    • • Farmers use red light to grow crops in record time
    • • Kenya seeks to reclaim the lost glory of its black gold
    • • Wanton deforestation threatens anti malarial trees in Kenya
    • • Confining pigs increases weight, halves diseases, researchers say
    • • Farmers expand markets,create mini banks with 'mangoes from above'
    • • How Green pepper is saving East African bananas
    • • Student triples earnings making bamboo umbrellas
    • • Kenyan scientists use mining technology to test crop nutrients
    • • New potato variety set to up yields and exports
    • • Farmers brace for videos to learn new farming techniques
    • • Organic deposits at Lake Naivasha could serve Kenya's fertilizer needs for 200 years
    • • Western farmers grow income intercropping sugarcane with vegetables
    • • Coastal coconut farmers find value for their palms
    • • Ukambani women save endangered gourd species and earns from it
    • • Franchise model allows farmers access and own livestock shops
    • • New competition targets young Facebook farmers
    • • Duo modify local stove to create a safer,cheaper cooking option
    • • Innovative farmers use plastic bags and sun to keep pests at bay
    • • Scientists bet on skin odour to tame Rift Valley Fever
    • • Fresh produce farmers access international markets thanks to Tropical Fresh
    • • Markets open up to cassava farmers with new machine
    • • Livestock farmers find a quicker fertilization option in embryo transfer
    • • Livestock farmers insulate themselves from dry spells with plastic bags
    • • Scientist pursues wild chiken for rural poor
    • • Farmers cut over reliance on traditional fodder with new technology
    • • EA farmers an SMS away from crucial market information
    • • Town farmers get government's support as markets grow
    • • East African sweet potato gets more nutritious and hybrid
    • • Farmers partner to clear bushy land for cultivation in record time
    • • Horticultural farmers get training center that promises increased exports and income
    • • Farming responsible for a third of harmful gases,study shows
    • • Certification group gives farmers incentive to grow more
    • • Fish farmers bet on feed producing machine to grow stocks and income
    • • Scientists breed high yielding bean variety with farmers' support
    • • Mwea farmers separate pest infested rice with urea
    • • Drip irrigation enjoys impressive uptake on economical use of water
    • • Vanguard farmers irrigate farms with rock water
    • • Farmers duplicate yam seeds in record time with new machine
    • • Emerging fish diseases threaten stocks and income
    • • Farmers save 40 percent income by soaking fertilizer before application
    • • The programme that trains and fetes women scientists
    • • Farmers quench hoteliers' thirst for tamarind fruits
    • • Commercial villages give farmers competitive market prices for their onions
    • • Laikipia tree farmers earn Sh100 for a kilo of leaves, saving endangered varieties
    • • Staple food Project promises farmers double income in 15 years
    • • Triple bags storage fights pests, reducing post harvest losses
    • • Farmers make rice husk briquettes with local machine
    • • Farmers fertilize soils with nuts
    • • Farmers count on human waste for bumper harvest
    • • Kenyan smallholder farmers to sell to UK markets directly
    • • Farmers triple yields with non expiring fertilizer
    • • Government introduces drought resistant grass to pastoral farmers
    • • Kenyan middle class drives local flower market
  • ► April
    • • Information gap locks thousands of dairy farmers from unique insemination method
    • • Bicycle powered maize sheller shells fourty times more than hand saving farmers labour costs
    • • Kenya taps into green farming to up exports
    • • Ukambani farmers abandon cereal cultivation for the lucrative tree farming
    • • How a market idea made Makueni farmers millionaires
    • • Tea farmers process own tea earning more than their counterparts
    • • Farmers turn wastelands into greenbelts with earth dams
    • • Maize killer that swept Rift resurfaces
    • • Scientists fight climate change, population pressure with sweet potato
    • • Kenya could have a salt tolerant rice variety in 4 years
    • • Cheap livestock breeding center boosts farmers' pockets and economy
    • • Wild cassava variety addresses food insecurity, increases yields
    • • Farmers up milk yields, cut feed costs with fattening tuber
    • • Friendly fungi introduced in beans and cassava to fight pests
    • • Online tool helps farmers identify over 200 rice weeds
    • • GM cotton linked to rise in voracious pest
    • • Long rains, political uncertainty double the price of tomatoes
    • • Superior sweet potato vines promise farmers 5x more yields than maize
    • • Sh63million funding targets innovators with ideas but no cash
    • • Cow mattresses up milk yields, fight mastitis
    • • Western Kenya farmers test soil acidity via phones
    • • Livestock skin odours assist scientists tame Rift Valley Fever
    • • Ukambani farmers grow income and yields with communal seed banks
    • • Sh5billion set to revolutionize Africa's strategic crops
    • • Sun best bet for processing the lucrative Aloe paste study shows
    • • Electronic extension services target youth and address staff shortfall
    • • Export paper trail strangles Kenyan sales and earnings
    • • Insecticide treated nets triple milk yields and protect livestocks
  • ► March
    • • Ugandans warm up to super chicken
    • • Scientists help farmers tame maize disease as planting gets underway
    • • Sh8.5 million to end biggest cassava threats in Africa
    • • Farmers can still increase income growing local crops with high value ones
    • • Africa holds key to trillion dollar food market, World Bank says
    • • Herbal pesticide emerge as a cheap solution to banana disease
    • • Female farmers a click away from data under UN, Airtel deal
    • • Coffee pest now attacks horticulture threatening Kenya's export earnings
    • • Meat fertilizer technology could end fertilizer woes in Kenya
    • • Ostrich farming rises on new markets and health conscious consumers
    • • Farmers gain from multinationals' hunger for raw materials
    • • Nyeri farmers fight fruit flies and thieves with red ants
    • • Compost manure as good in crop yield as synthetic fertilizer scientists say
  • ► February
    • • Kenyan tree farm redefines farming in Rwanda
    • • Kenya scores another first with climate resource center
    • • Fact Sheet: Seed suppliers in Kenya
    • • Potato powered battery to the rescue of rural Kenyans
    • • Sand dams change face of farming in Kitui
    • • Kenya courts electronic tongue to test tea
    • • Tech that captures fish sound on laptop saves rare species
    • • Fund introduces loans for egg incubators
    • • Scientists use digital camera to contain banana pest
    • • Western farmers to own cows thanks to Mumias
    • • Sleeping with chicken increases human diseases
    • • Kenya edges closer to eradicating East Coast Fever
    • • Kenya uses technology to explore underground water
    • • Farmers ignore lucrative global wonder crop
  • ► January
    • • Farmers use tractor smoke as fertilizer
    • • Kenya curbs poaching with new technology
    • • Online trading platform draws more youth to farming
    • • Farmers jittery over food nutrient campaign
    • • New grass insulates farmers from deadly disease
    • • Fund to change face of Turkana farming
    • • Farmers embrace upland rice to grow income
    • • Tea clones promise farmers triple yields
    • • Illegal hunters sell Kenya's rare bird meat for a song
    • • Bamboo bicycles to assist farmers access markets
    • • Fact Sheet: Greenhouse options and costs in Kenya
    • • Crop breeding and patenting threaten future planting
    • • Rearing fish under chicken shed increases yields 4 times
• ► 2012
  • ► December
    • • Soybean newfound global use could benefit Kenyan farmers
    • • Pawpaw seeds cure poultry disease
    • • Youths make a killing out of bat droppings
    • • Collateral free financing for farmers launched
    • • Farmers warm up to Sh20,000 kadogo drip kit
    • • Scientists flex green muscle against locusts
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  • ► November
    • • The seedbank that preserves historical wonder crops
    • • Farmbiz guide for contributors
    • • Fact Sheet: Making a million yearly with red onions
    • • Fact Sheet: Making money with egg incubators
    • • How bulls cause cow infertility
    • • US hospital feed patients with greenhouse, teaches Kenya
    • • Camel skin drums beat in favour of farmers and traders
    • • Government mulls fertilizer plant with caution
    • • Kenyan child wonder feted globally for lion defence
    • • Meru floors Kisii to lead in banana production
    • • Vanguard farmer grafts fast maturing apple variety
  • ► October
    • • Bananas build as food of future
    • • Scientists unveil water friendly rice variety
    • • Fruit farmers court bats to fight pests
    • • Farmers court worms to protect environment and earn income
    • • The Sh383billion to awaken the sleeping giant
    • • Fish traders scale income with skin
    • • Farmers re invent barter trade with manure
    • • Farmer earns millions from taboo birds
    • • Egg day: Shocking Kenyans egg eating habits
    • • Livestock farmers substitute commercial feeds for houseflies
    • • Unit to reduce animal human diseases sevenfold
    • • Ugandan farmers lure Kenyans into hibiscus farming
    • • Germinating factory ups seed production tenfold
    • • Farmers cut calf death by quarter thanks to feeder bottle
    • • Student makes yoghurt and wine from cactus
    • • Dairy giant ups payments to draw supplies for dry milk
    • • Fact Sheet: The Mombasa Tea Auction
    • • Naming a cow increases its milk output
  • ► September
    • • Scientists use satellite to hit tsetse on target
    • • China tackles meat shortage with Kenyan import deal
    • • Nigeria cracks fertiliser blight with 10m free phones
    • • Crab spray delays rotting of bananas
    • • New-style chicken cage saves feed and eggs
    • • Fact Sheet: Top Watermelon Methods
    • • KTDA pays highest in world to small scale tea farmers
    • • Agribusiness tours boom as farmers seek step up
    • • Kenyan pastoralists key in eradicating cow plague
    • • Fact sheet: Fodder shrubs
    • • Scientists alarmed by drop in pollinators
    • • Fact Sheet: Seed Suppliers
    • • Web tool points farmers to best irrigation options
    • • Organic farming not an environmental solution, claims research
    • • Government opens Sh2bn farmer census to match policy with needs
    • • Flower farms tap into lucrative carbon market
    • • Poor soils savage banana yields across EA
    • • Farmers grow maize with mobile phones
    • • Farmers reap from prisoners’ potato tomato cross breed
    • • Tea body builds green energy to cut EA tea costs
    • • Sweet potato gets faster and sweeter
    • • Nestle creates 26,000+ world-class coffee farmers in Kenya
  • ► August
    • • Farmers lead revolution in water harvesting
    • • Geneticists build new rice for poor soils
    • • Pawpaws and Sodom apple cure bilharzia, say scientists
    • • Coastal farmers crack Sh20,000 crayfish market
    • • Vanguard women turn animal blood to cheap fertilizer
    • • Freer milk market drives network built of entrepreneurs
    • • Pyrethrum farmers plead for disbanding of board
    • • Next2 offers farmers SMS selling and info networks
    • • Goat program delivers '000s of superior crossbreeds
    • • Farmbizafrica wins again
    • • KARI targets arid farming with Turkana centre
    • • KARI creates 35,000 super chicken
    • • Rocks to crops billed as Africa's future
    • • Goat plague flares again igniting fear of epidemic
    • • Weaver ants clear crops of pests in minutes
    • • Nut processors pledge to aid farmers boost output
    • • Exporters chase lost billions with Swahili guide to standards
    • • First Sh2.2bn fund for small agribusinesses
    • • Geneticists trick cabbage pest on to tobacco
    • • New crop farmers in Turkana wake to locusts
    • • Seed potatoes from healthy mother plants up yields
    • • Farmbizafrica journalist voted best in East Africa
    • • Embryo transfers deliver cheap high-yielding Friesians
    • • Vanguard farmers use tacler to sell more globally
    • • Vanguard farmers use tackler to sell more globally
    • • Crop breeding experts meet to boost seed production
    • • KWFT livestock loans offer all-in-one life upgrade
    • • KARI trials super-maize for issue 2015
    • • CIP unveils cheap fermented pig feed
    • • Technology uses water to estimate drought
  • ► July
    • • KWS warns of jail for unlicensed game farming
    • • Knowledge Bank gives farmers pest tool
    • • Six acres of cheese feeds thousands
    • • Government buys bulldozers for cheap rent to farmers
    • • KARI warns farmers to act fast on chicken fowl pox
    • • Kenyan institutions mobilise to triple potato harvest
    • • Icow delivers doubled milk yields, report farmers
    • • Farmers count the sweet snap of 10x more income
    • • Coffee sector reels from thieving
    • • Farmers report instant gains from milking machines
    • • Farm of marvels sells feathers and flights
    • • Lucrative soya brings western soils back to life
    • • VAT on agriculture spells food insecurity, falling exports
    • • Bamboo and wire transform passion fruit harvests
    • • Ministry trains fish farmers for better sales
    • • New material regulates heat in poultry sheds
    • • Ethiopia and Tanzania 'hotspots' for animal diseases killing humans
    • • Kenyan poultry farms closing on cheaper Ugandan eggs
    • • Collar provides new tsetse protection for shillings
    • • Sweet potato production more than doubles in 2 years
    • • Software calculates ideal local feeding for livestock
    • • Scientists identify disease resistant coffee varieties
    • • US gives go-ahead for importing of Kenyan beans
    • • Young graduate builds flour plant to tackle banana glut
    • • Project launched to eradicate African lung plague
    • • Scientists urge cactus planting for high-grade livestock fodder
    • • Bug threatens Kenya's lucrative eucalyptus trade
    • • Researchers fight witch weed with new technology
  • ► June
    • • New plant investment seeks 12000 passion fruit farmers
    • • Kenya's seed shortage sows innovative ventures
    • • Kenya's crop insurance wins international innovation award
    • • Coastal farmers dive into seaweed market
    • • Coastal farmers dive into seaweed market
    • • UoN leads with climate change studies for farm survival
    • • New breed of shrubs change farmers fortunes in East Africa
    • • Consortium rolls out agro nets that slash aphids
    • • Kenya top risk for fatal poultry disease
    • • Free beehives end losses to marauding elephants
    • • Study delivers way to end cowpea losses
    • • Isiolo farmers halve livestock deaths with tank
    • • Scientists identify maize killer sweeping Rift
    • • PROFIT deal aims to deliver $100m more in farmers loans
    • • M-Calc gives local weather solutions to up outputs
    • • Seed man leads '000s of farmers into bio-farming
    • • Researchers flag growth and big profits in fruit and veg
    • • Returns surge for sheep farmers on burgeoning wool demand
    • • New money grows on trees in Mombasa
    • • Scientists launch cyanide-free sorghum for drought farmers
    • • JK aims to increase loans to rural farmers six-fold
    • • JK aims to increase loans to rural farmers six-fold
    • • Childrens' farms create 20000+ new, young farmers
  • ► May
    • • Farmers end disease for free-range chickens with aloe vera
    • • Farmers shift to home-made solution to bean fly
    • • Research opens on high-yield rice for Africa
    • • Investment plan set up to promote local fertiliser production
    • • New wheat launched to rescue GDP growth
    • • Leaf stamp spells control of aflatoxins for shillings
    • • Sea water technology to end farmers' drought woes
    • • Agricultural growth slowed 2011 on drought
    • • Anti fake seed agency launched to fight counterfeits
    • • Coffee pulper cuts crop processing time by a week
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    • • New groundnut triples returns in Kieni
    • • Kenyan farmers news service moves pan-African
    • • Commercial potential for the humble cactus pear
    • • Kiwi disease traced to China
    • • New tech takes the weeping out of processing chillies
    • • Walling out weevils ups potato yields
    • • Chick brooding chamber slashes poultry farm costs
    • • Growers lured back into chives by rising demand
    • • Global partners move to create African soil map
    • • Banana canopies lead to better coffee crops
  • ► April
    • • Secret lion dung method saving livestock and crops
    • • Plants with drought history gain survival mechanisms
    • • Farmers use wheels and mirrors to end potato blight
    • • Study proves gains from growing rice and fish together
    • • Microdosing increases yields on infertile soils
    • • New research offers way to restore Kenyan mahogany growth
    • • Farmers urged to plant Kenya's high-value medicinal prune tree before extinction
    • • Farmers get help buying silos to save maize from pests
    • • Rice farmers cut costs and seed loss with plastic drum planting
    • • Camels rise as Kenya’s livestock industry of the future
    • • Two million tea trees earn top dollars for Mount Kenya farmers
  • ► March
    • • Scientists use new super-weevil to eat water hyacinth to death
    • • Kenya trials oil palm to serve burgeoning local market
    • • Rift farmer unearths preservation method transforming potato market
    • • Scientists urge coffee growers to save their future with shade trees
    • • Kenya's booming wind energy
    • • Kenya pioneers climate-smart agriculture to earn carbon credits
    • • Whistling pine turns Mombasa group into rising entepreneurs
    • • High demand for aromatic herbs expands farming horizon in dry areas
    • • Parasite attack in US opens window for Kenyan honey exporters
    • • Rift valley farmers bet on milk chilling plant, shrubs to grow income
    • • East African farmers reap profits with new herb used in drugs to fight malaria
    • • Tourists visit villages to grow organic farming
    • • Traditional herbs give farmers market among the health conscious
    • • Kenyan farmers quench demand for Ethiopian cuisine with teff
    • • Farmers court South African soft drink company with new papaya variety
    • • Kenya looses on gum tree benefits as Sudan rake billions
    • • Farmers quench pharmaceuticals’ demand for hive by product
    • • Chameleons change colour of money for innovative farmers
    • • Markets open up to Kenya's beeswax
    • • Farmers make table salt from aquatic plant
    • • Farmers invest in feeder roads to reach markets
    • • Farmers turn wild fruits into a money spinner
    • • Price incentives spur sisal farming comeback
    • • Cotton revival in rift valley as buying prices rise
    • • Academics learn from 'bush universities'
    • • Kari breeding high-value beans for canners
    • • Star Farmer
    • • Crocodile farming rises as new opportunity
    • • Farmers to go mobile to buy inputs and budget
    • • Lowly bixa shrub rises as valuable raw material at coast
    • • Ktda rolls out new weighing technology
    • • Marketing knowhow project repositions banana smallholders
    • • Marketing knowhow project repositions banana smallholders
    • • Communities thrive on bringing tourists to the farm
    • • WFP chases more than 20,000 new smallholder suppliers
    • • Beauty foods create expanding global market for fruits
    • • Mushroom tea and coffee launched into ea health market
    • • 1000 farmers plant indian miracle tree
    • • Kenya takes to the sweet taste of the avocado market
    • • Ethics finally guiding tea picking and processing in kenya
    • • Farmers stay in teabags as trade policy slashes the market
    • • Goat milk farming rises as new industry
    • • Farmers earn from selling leaves for chandeliers
    • • Kenya still short as world maize prices fall
    • • Coffee set for prolonged surge in prices on short harvests
    • • Turmeric emerging as a cure-all
    • • New guide fuels thousands of green shoppers
    • • New research proves beetroot as health super food
    • • Limited data accessible to farmers makes a company look for a partner to run its network
    • • Banana farmers turn fruit to wine, as Hero’s Power
    • • Pastoralists earn for conserving ecosystem
    • • Kenyas' Scientists breakthrough in the war on tsetse fly
    • • Soaring cost of maize scaling back chicken production
    • • Murang'a farmers preserve fresh produce with solar dryer
    • • Farmers using lime, increase maize yields 8X
    • • From hawking cigarettes to poultry millionaire: a farmer journey
    • • Kit developed to detect non-fertile eggs
    • • Butterfly farmers strike gold in butterfly conservation project
    • • Business farmer turns wasteland into award winning food basket
    • • Waste water drives urban farming and urban disease
    • • Eastern farmers move back into cotton on price revival
    • • Precious gums emerge as new sector for north-east
    • • Aloe vera adds up as precious weed
    • • The farm comes to nairobeans, for rent or agri-business holidays
    • • Farmer benefits from rain water harvesting
    • • Kakamega farmers scoop top global awards for growing wild plant
    • • Smallholders buying fresians in rent-to-pay programme
    • • Artisan dreams a living out of old banana stalks
    • • Safflower takes as route to food oil market
    • • Wfp rolls out training and funds to source smallholder maize
    • • Farm project doubles incomes for eastern maize farmers
    • • Association launched to drive farmers harder into banana market
    • • Google saved my potatoes
    • • Barcoding opens up milk market for meru goat farmers
    • • The farmer who beat the middle men to wealth
    • • Kenyan farmers to get trained on greenhouses in south africa
    • • Small scale farmers opt for crop failure insurance on seeds and inputs
    • • High-return mushroom growing stalls on marketing issues
    • • When dead wood is good wood
    • • Farmers queue for super-resistant fencing poles from waste
    • • Clones promise route to kplc pole market
    • • Kencall moves into farm support with helpline
    • • Speedy arbitration leaves squatters in fresh land rows
    • • Experts pitch for no tillage to curb land degradation
    • • Farmers to benefit from smartphone app that monitor greenhouses
    • • Farmers find cheap solution to locust menace
    • • Moyale farmers reap from low cost preservation of camel meat
    • • Sweet potato glut inspires portagurt production
    • • Marsabit farmers pay price for poor planting information
    • • New technology protect pineapples from sun damage,boosting harvest
    • • Efforts to promote growing of vitamin A rich sweet potatoes pays off
    • • A project leverage the untapped potential of sweet potato
    • • New study places livestock among drivers of economy
    • • Cassava disease wipes swathes of land as million stare at starvation
    • • Near extinct nut elevate farmers to enteprenurial life
    • • Candle smoke reduces rice pest by forty percent
    • • Third generation potato seed multiplication lift farmers fortunes
    • • Scientists unveil superior and cheaper East Coast Fever vaccine
    • • Mission to position small scale farmers to grow their way out of hunger
    • • New invention offers weevils solution
    • • Farmers discover cost cutting liquid fertilizer
    • • Kari increases immunity of free range chicken with eyedrop vaccine
    • • Poor hoof trimming the leading cause of lameness in livestock
    • • Plant doctors slash foreign plant diseases by three-quarters
    • • Herders count losses as spreading disease threatens to wipe out goats
    • • Farmers use insects to kill insects
    • • Grafting becomes farmers' silver bullet against pests and diseases
    • • Poultry farmers grapple with voracious mites
    • • New multi tasking animal comes to the rescue of farmers
    • • Farmers reap the sweet returns of sweetener's farming
    • • Flower farms reap from waste water management
    • • Insects address food insecurity and environmental degradation
    • • Army worm sex trap help farmers fight the voracious moth
    • • New breed of shrubs that returns impressive results for livestock
    • • Group of farmers in Marsabit is turning to ways of harvesting water and securing water supplies
    • • Farmer field schools gaining ground in Kenya
    • • Kenyans love for tea push consumption higher
    • • Women turn water cleansing method into money machine
    • • Central Kenya farmers find fortunes in strawberry leaves
    • • Research firm launches new land saving bean variety
    • • Farmers learn to optimize small pieces of land
    • • Researchers plot against coffee thrips invasion
    • • Irrigation innovation saves farmers water
    • • Farmers find benefits in a dreaded invasive weed
    • • New finger millet varieties set for release
    • • New plant tonic enhances crop productivity
    • • Farmers find reprieve in solar powered water pumps
    • • New commercial mango varieties promise fortunes for coastal farmers
    • • 1000 gardens initiative in Africa to revolutionize farming
    • • Agricultural researchers plot against the aflatoxin menace
    • • Popping more than just corn
    • • Predatory mite offers reprieve for flower firms against voracious spider mite
    • • Farmers turn to 'fertiliser tree' to boost crop production
    • • Scientist proves farmers’ need of healthy insects
    • • Amiran kenya targets “facebook farmers” in brain-fed agriculture initiative
    • • Herb offers low cost respite from ticks, aphids and mites
    • • Rapeseed plant turns maize farmer into vegetable oil producer
    • • Napier planting technique that increases milk production
    • • Coconut rises as commercial crop in coast
    • • Agra funds a breeding research program for better seeds
    • • Agra funds a breeding research program for better seeds
    • • Un unveils a crop calendar for farmers
    • • Camel milk becomes the new cash cow for anolei women's group
    • • Seed projects sprout from rising demand for high value greens
    • • Researchers set eco traps to keep striga weed at bay
    • • Silk worm farming turns into a money spinner for farmers
    • • Terracing helps kenyan farmers' reclaim barren slopy lands
    • • Home made pest control methods gain grounds among East African farmers
    • • Farmers find a cheap,environmental friendly alternative to fertilizer in waste products
    • • CABI's plant clinics offer respite to farmers
    • • Six gm crops to help farmers survive climate change and up food security
    • • Kari launches blueprint to fix kenya’s sick soils
    • • Pig measuring tool tips the scales in favour of farmers
    • • New farmers push machinery sales by 70 percent
    • • New technology moves farmers beyond fertilisers, via legumes
    • • Soybean farming blossoms in growth market
    • • Aqua shops move western fish farmers into commercial business
    • • Yellow passion fruit doubles fruit farmers incomes
    • • Workshops reposition agro-dealers as farming experts
    • • organic herb exporter draws 500 farmers into high-growth market
    • • Local seed grower launches high-quality trial seeds for Sh10 a pack
    • • Basic measures bring huge price gains for coffee co-op farmers
    • • livestock finance for farmers triples in last year
    • • milk analyser opens way to perfect records of buying and selling
    • • slum dwellers adopt urban farming as step up
    • • High-return onion farming lures urban professionals back to land
    • • kari primes potato sector with fast-track tuber growing technology
    • • Experts redraw insurance model to protect drought-stricken herders
    • • fish group builds satellite centre to upgrade pond yields
    • • kilimo biashara pours in water and funds for small-holders
    • • kenya’s annual agricultural showcase
    • • kari trials super potato
    • • farmers groups move into nurseries and leaf oils
    • • breeders import super cow for milk and beef
    • • farmers install commercial hives for wax and honey
    • • solar water pumping to take root in kenya
    • • solar water pumping takes root in Kenya
    • • Onion farmers earn fortunes from hybrids
    • • parasitic wasps introduced to save orchards from fruit flies
    • • arm launches new banana fertilizer upping yields
    • • grasses protect kenyan maize from stem borer peril
    • • new cabbage offers respite from pests and droughts
    • • new tomato breeds released for outdoors and greenhouses
    • • ‘000s of farmers move onto high-return dried food industry
    • • new high yield maize seeds released
    • • kari launches wonder cassava with 4x yield
    • • kephis expands sms service giving highest yield seeds for each region
    • • rainwater experts launch projects to end drought for farmers
    • • premature harvesting fanning the aflatoxin menace
    • • improved banana offers fast-track for small scale farmers
    • • baobab emerges as next super-food and big industry
    • • low-cost irrigation kit launched for peasant farmers
    • • bamboo offers green gold for kenyan farmers
    • • East african shea butter becomes cosmetics gold
    • • home-grown aloe vera moves into mainstream
    • • kari mini-greenhouse ups yields by 2x to 6x
    • • jatropha: turning kenyan desert into fields
  • ► February
    • • Star Farmers
    • • farmers to benefit from smartphone app that monitor greenhouses
    • • Kenya pioneers climate-smart agriculture to earn carbon credits for farmers