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Irish food processor Kerry Group expands to East African market
Irish food processor Kerry Group buys Africa's Afribon which specializes in the production of food flavors and picked Kenya as headquarters with expansion plans to the African market. Irish food…
KTDA holds a medical camp for tea farmers as part of CSR
KTDA a Global Leader in Quality Teas KTDA is a private company owned by about 600,000 smallholder tea farmers spread across 16 tea-growing counties in Kenya. The farmers are shareholders…
Israeli firm to set up nile perch breeding center in Kisumu
An Israeli businessman has indicated an interest in establishing a Nile Perch breeding center in Kisumu to help replenish Lake Victoria's diminishing fish numbers. The state-of-the-art facility, which will be…
Family Bank offers 6 billion Shillings for agribusiness
Through the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Pay for Performance initiative under the Kenya Investment Mechanism program, Family Bank has committed Sh 6 billion to provide affordable financing…
KTDA releases second payment to farmers
KTDA is a private company owned by about 600,000 smallholder tea farmers spread across 16 tea growing counties in Kenya. The farmers are shareholders to 54 tea companies that own…
Facilitate NCPB to avoid food crisis
The National Cereals and produce Board is the largest organization funded by the government of Kenya through the ministry of agriculture to ensure a sufficient supply of food in…
Onion farmers in tears over glut
September 3 in a satellite town of Dakar, Senegal 25 kilo sacks of onions are pilled up on pavements ignored by passers by. The West African power house is currently…
Ministry of agriculture update on deep sea fishing at the coast
MY REMARKS DURING THE FLAGGING- OFF EVENT OF VESSELS FOR TRAINING OF DEEP SEA FISHERS AT THE LIWATONI FISHING COMPLEX, MOMBASA ON WEDNESDAY, 4TH AUGUST, 2021. The ministry of agriculture…
New coffee marketing company promises to end farmers troubles
United Eastern Kenya Coffee Marketing Company, is the new entrant into the lucrative world of coffee sales and marketing. The Company will have the mandate of marketing coffee from the…
FARMER WITHOUT HANDS BEATS THE ODDS
Sibusiso Mogale is a farmer from eNgodini, Mbombela in Mpumalanga who produces chickens and organic vegetables. He knows the struggles that many small-scale farmers across Mzansi face, but he is…