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Farmers in Kirinyaga are wading off upto 40 percent of tomato pests and tripling yields by grafting tomatoes, offering lessons to the over half a million farmers across the country stuck at production with the traditional disease and pest prone varie [ ... ]

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The arsenal that protects Kenya from domestic and foreign pest threats
Bob Koigi for African Laughter

Picture this. Douglas Wanjala a small scale horticultural farmer in Rift Valley visits his local agrovet each month to buy his favourite pesticide. He does this once a month, to rid the cabbages off t [ ... ]

Kenya bets on Hass avocado to up exports
Bob Koigi for African Laughter

Kenyan avocado exporters are exuding confidence that the recently shipped Hass variety to Europe will record high sales than the previous season's as farm management practices and rigorous training to [ ... ]

Fact sheet: Financing options for Kenyan farmers
Bob Koigi for African Laughter

Few years ago, banks and other financial institutions would never have touched agriculture in their financing considering it a high risk sector. But a growing number of farmers investing in new age an [ ... ]

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