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- ► 2013
- ► May
- • 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
- • Kakamega herb farmers capture regional market
- • 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
- • Maasai farmers harvest runoff water turning barren lands to oases
- • 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
- • Grass arrests soil erosion, cleans up soils
- • 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
- • Farmers improve soil health and fight pests with cover crops
- • 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
- • Confining pigs increases weight, halves diseases, researchers say
- • 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
- • 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
- • Wanton deforestation threatens anti malarial trees in Kenya
- • 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
- • Kenya seeks to reclaim the glory of its black gold
- • 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
- • Masts to measure weather and refrigerate vaccines
- • Kenyan tree farm redefines farming in Rwanda
- • 'Mangoes from above' create new markets and income
- • Green pepper fortify East African bananas
- • Kenya scores another first with climate resource center
- • Fact Sheet: Seed suppliers in Kenya
- • Kisii youth create 19 value added banana products
- • Improved avocado variety set to lift Kenya's export figures
- • Potato powered battery to the rescue of rural Kenyans
- • Group uses sticks and metal to find underground water
- • Farmers win big as customers go for neglected yam
- • Sand dams change face of farming in Kitui
- • Kenya courts electronic tongue to test tea
- • Demystifying Kenya's pest control arsenal
- • 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
- • Satelite technology to curb illegal fishing.
- • New grass insulates farmers from deadly disease
- • Fund to change face of Turkana farming
- • Farmers earn from egg shells
- • Farmers use red light to grow crops in record time
- • 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
- • Farming colleges to redefine Ukambani farming
- • Government mulls agribusiness course in schools
- • Farmer uses wire mesh to contain aflatoxin menace
- • Fact Sheet: Greenhouse options and costs in Kenya
- • Oil tins and molasses trap cotton pest reducing losses
- • Crop breeding and patenting threaten future planting
- • Rearing fish under chicken shed increases yields 4 times
- ► May
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- ► December
- • Soybean newfound global use could benefit Kenyan farmers
- • Pawpaw seeds cure poultry disease
- • Banana charcoal saves livelihoods and forests
- • 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
- • Farmer makes juice from weeds, tripling income
- • How bulls cause cow infertility
- • US hospital feed patients with greenhouse, teaches Kenya
- • Experts pitch for money that grows on trees
- • 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
- • 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
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- • 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
- • 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
- • 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
- • 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
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- ► December
