Potato farmers to benefit from new Nyandarua reasearch and production centre
Potato farmers are set to benefit from the construction of a research and production centre in Nyandarua County, which will guarantee farmers quality, climate,...
Pepino Melon- the hidden treasure.
It has a light-yellow to light-green skin, with purple strips. When ripe, its flesh is golden yellow with a cucumber or melon-like texture.
The Pepino...
Women’s group benefits from making potato crisps
In Ndaragua, a few kilometres from the Nyeri-Nakuru highway, a group of women have found prosperity in potato value addition. Thanks to the potato...
Fortunes from rabbit market search.
Thirty-year-old Bicham Waita, who rears rabbits, has weathered a storm, rising from despair to prosperity. Four years ago, he was a very distressed man...
Eggs are nature’s vitamin pills
Eggs are an excellent source of high quality protein, rich in amino acids, calcium, sodium, iodine, selenium, choline and vitamins A, B, D &...
ANIMAL FEED FROM GRASSHOPPERS
In a small room at a university in Nakuru County, two researchers are working on a unique innovation that is set to boost food...
New Agribusiness course open to students throughout Africa
About 25 African students aged 20-30 will benefit from a new agribusiness course known as the AGCO Agribusiness Program (AAP) and thereafter get job...
value added expo and science congress
Value addition and innovation were themes that rung out simultaneously at the Kenyatta International Conference Center during the better end of May, where a...
The pain of loss and anguish of donkey owners
A donkey to many people is just but another animal that does not raise any interest or thought. In fact, to some it is a...
How to make your own natural pesticides
The best time to spray is early in the morning and evening to avoid disintegration from the sun and to killing predators and beneficial...
Fair deal for coffee farmers
Coffee farmers under Fairtrade agreements received between eight and 26 times higher prices than those not affiliated to the global body, researchers at the...
Drones in agriculture
Unmanned aerial vehicles or drones are being used to get visual images of rice fields and to gather information more accurately. Rice researchers have...
Excessive use of antibiotics threat to livestock
About 40 to 80 per cent of the antibiotics used on livestock are not necessary, experts say. The misuse of drugs on animals and...
Tilapia virus disease
Once thought to be disease-resistant, tilapia is being ravaged by a new virus that has seen a big decline in its population in Egypt...
How resilient farmers are beating climate change.
With the effects of a changing climate being deeply felt, farmers in Machakos County are adopting ingenious ways of coping with the vagaries of...