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Coffee trading licence extended by state

adminJul 10, 2020March 7, 20260

The government has extended coffee trading licenses for another one year. This comes barely two days after the Nairobi coffee exchange failed to hoard coffee

You don’t have to wait till harvesting to sell

adminJul 10, 20200

About 10 workers on the farm in Kisaju, Kajiado County, sort out onions according to their sizes, placing the smaller ones on one side and

Farmers cut millions from eucalyptus trees

adminJul 10, 20200

For Manish Shah, buying the 12-acre farm in Redhill, Kiambu County was the simplest investment decision he has had to make in the recent past.

Kenyan students win 1.6M for developing a weeding robot

adminJul 10, 20200

Two students, Michael Mwaisakenyi and Kenneth Gichira, from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology are the regional winners of the 18th annual Imagine Cup

All smiles as cane farmers get debt reprieve

adminJul 10, 2020March 7, 20260

The proposal by the Government to write of a Sh62 billion debt choking sugarcane millers in Nyanza has been welcomed by governors and farmers in

Post-harvest losses, wayforward

adminJul 10, 2020March 7, 20260

Food security is key and ensuring increased food production is vital. However, Kenya also needs to reflect on the irony of how much our farmers

Easiest way of controlling fall armyworm

adminJul 10, 2020March 7, 20260

The fall armyworm is an insect that can damage your maize plants or even cause you to lose your whole maize crop. Fall armyworm prefers

Keeping poultry far apart reduces antibiotic use

adminJul 1, 20200

Animal producers have been urged to adhere to proper spacing or ‘social distancing’ to help reduce the use of antibiotics, which end up in the

KALRO launches app to forecasts weather and advises farmers

adminJul 1, 20200

Farmers across Kenya will now be able to get information on rainfall patterns within their regions at the touch of a button on their phones.

Coffee farming attractive as government puts measures to strengthen farmers

adminJul 1, 20200

The Agriculture Cabinet Secretary (CS), Peter Munya has assured coffee farmers countrywide that the government was putting in place measures to revive the coffee industry