This is one of the sweetest stories on value addition of the agribusiness value chain.From fish comes a snack. Do you have a sweet tooth? Here’s you chance. University graduate banks on fish cookies to create jobs BY BOZO JENJE Dressed in a white shirt, black trouser and a matchingContinue Reading
Vihiga to intensify irrigation to boost food production The Vihiga county government has stepped up efforts to move away from rain fed agriculture following plans to introduce irrigation farming to enable all-season crop cultivation to boost food security. The move follows an un predictable and unreliable rainfall pattern in recentContinue Reading
Kenyan farmers to gain from AfDB’s Sh174.95b emergency food facility PRODUCTION: Kenyan farmers will be among 20 million African growers to benefit from African Development Bank (AfDB) $1.5 billion (Sh174.95 billion) emergency production facility to tackle the food crisis sparked by the Russian-Ukraine conflict. The African Emergency Food Production FacilityContinue Reading
40,000 farmers in various sectors to benefit from new initiative from Danida Trans Nzoia county government has partnered with Micro Enterprises Support Programme Trust (MESPT) to launch a five-year programme that seeks to accelerate employment in the agriculture sector. Named Green Employ ment in Agriculture Pro gramme (GEAP), itContinue Reading
India, the world’s second largest producer of wheat, has banned all exports with immediate effect after a heatwave affected the crop. A notice in the government gazette by the directorate of foreign trade, dated Friday, said a rise in global prices for wheat was threatening the food security of IndiaContinue Reading
More pain ahead as Pakistan bans sugar export Pakistan on Monday 9th of May imposed a complete ban on the export of sugar owing to the increase in local demand for the commodity. The ban is aimed at stabilizing the prices of sugar. Read more Fertilizer export ban from TurkeyContinue Reading
Farm inputs prices to go up as turkey bans export Farmers are staring at a possible shortage of too dressing fertilizer as turkey bans export of the same. Read more Soil testing tips for farming From sharpening knives for Kshs 10 to succefsul garlic farming 8 mistakes to avoid inContinue Reading
Why you should join the one acre From the time of our fore fathers farming has been a communal thing and done in groups, its no different in this time and age. Read more Seedco Kenya job vacancy as a production officer Job Vacancy Director Agricultural Mechanization Services Uasin GishuContinue Reading
KCB group through its foundation, the KCB Foundation, has inked a two year sh 100 million partnership deal with the United States Agency for International Development Kenya investment mechanism to train and finance livestock farmers from the country’s arid and semi arid lands. Read more KCB offers over one millionContinue Reading
Vegetable export value slide 94pc on low volumes The value of Kenya’s vegetable exports dropped sharply by 94 percent or sh 811 million in January of 2022 as a result of low volumes. Read more How profitable is managu farming How to sell your farm produce HYDROPONIC AGRICULTURE TURNS KENYANContinue Reading