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“Brokers tampering with weighing scales has always been an unfortunate part of the farming game in Kenya, however, as th...
09/02/2025

“Brokers tampering with weighing scales has always been an unfortunate part of the farming game in Kenya, however, as the cost of living has risen the degree to which this vice has proliferated in recent years is disconcerting; nowadays you will be hard-pressed to find an honest broker,” begins my conversation with an onion middleman in one of Nairobi’s major markets.

This greed bug has now been transmitted to large agricultural food suppliers, exporters, hawkers, and even farmers themselves, who are all involved in a deathly dance on the graves of countless farming dreams.
https://farmbizafrica.com/tipping-the-scales-how-greed-is-killing-kenyan-agriculture/

Seed companies prefer to work with agrovets that open accounts by buying at least Sh100,000 worth of seeds the very firs...
07/02/2025

Seed companies prefer to work with agrovets that open accounts by buying at least Sh100,000 worth of seeds the very first time. They also extend credit to bulk seed buyers this means that for small rural agrovets, getting access to seeds directly from major seed suppliers isn’t cheap and is often out of reach.

This is pushing these small agrovets to the fake seed market which is hurting millions of Kenya's farmers.
https://farmbizafrica.com/seed-companies-lock-out-rural-agrovets-creating-booming-fake-seed-market/

Naivas poultry farm has increased its egg production from 500 to 1,200 per day from their 1,500 kienyeji chicken by subs...
06/02/2025

Naivas poultry farm has increased its egg production from 500 to 1,200 per day from their 1,500 kienyeji chicken by substituting three quarters of expensive chicken feeds for a free w**d grown on water.

According to farm manager Alex Maina who is a veterinarian by profession this has all been made possible by Azolla. The w**d that grows on top of water is 28% crude protein which means it can provide enough protein needed by chickens to form eggs.

“Azolla plants grow naturally on stagnant water. We plant them in 50 pods that we make ourselves on our farm in Laikipia.
https://farmbizafrica.com/poultry-farm-sees-180-egg-increase-shifting-to-free-water-w**d-feed/

A moringa leaf spray is rescuing farmers by preventing the growth of the wheat leaf rust which has had the most used fun...
05/02/2025

A moringa leaf spray is rescuing farmers by preventing the growth of the wheat leaf rust which has had the most used fungicide to control it banned in Kenya.

Affecting seven out of every ten wheat growers in the country, the disease can cause total losses for farmers. “It is the single most troublesome disease wheat farmers are having to deal with at the moment,” said Josep Wangai, an agronomist and wheat farmer.
https://farmbizafrica.com/moringa-spray-halts-rust-eating-up-kenyas-wheat/

An NGO has begun buying macadamia, doubling the earnings of farmers who previously relied on exploitative middlemen as t...
04/02/2025

An NGO has begun buying macadamia, doubling the earnings of farmers who previously relied on exploitative middlemen as the only buyers of their nuts.

Selling their macadamia nuts to One Acre Fund, since 2022 over 20,000 macadamia smallholder farmers in Central Kenya are earning Sh130 for a kilogram of their nuts, a massive improvement from the Sh60-Sh20/Kg they previously got.
https://farmbizafrica.com/ngo-replaces-middle-man-in-macadamia-doubling-farmer-prices/

In Muhaka, Kwale County, Kugawana Spirulina farm grows at least one tonne of Arthrospira Platensis, commercially known a...
04/02/2025

In Muhaka, Kwale County, Kugawana Spirulina farm grows at least one tonne of Arthrospira Platensis, commercially known as spirulina every year. The microscopic blue-green algae is fed as a supplement in food to children in the locality, offering a more balanced diet in a county where malnutrition in children stands at a worrying 30%.

According to the British Medical Journal (BMJ) spirulina helps in avoidance of malnutrition because it's among the single most nutritious food on the planet. The quality of the protein in Spirulina is comparable to eggs and it contains all the essential amino acids that the human body needs. Spirulina is also a good source of protein gram per gram more so than beef, poultry, fish, and soybeans. Its cultivation is also very economical and does not involve any technical expertise while its growth rate is also very high.
https://farmbizafrica.com/kwale-farm-using-spirulina-superfood-to-combat-endemic-malnutrition/

Smallholder bean farmers in Western Kenya have seen their bean harvests increase by 200 percent and their maize producti...
04/02/2025

Smallholder bean farmers in Western Kenya have seen their bean harvests increase by 200 percent and their maize production increase from two tonnes per hectare every season to five tonnes per ha/season, thanks to the addition of 60 kg per hectare of miracle phosphate rocks mined in Tanzania.

Up to 80% of Western Kenya’s soils are low on phosphorus. Falling soil phosphorus levels are a majour threat to food security in Africa. Between 1961 and 1998, the continent’s rate of phosphorus loss was estimated to have tripled mainly because of continuous farming without refreshing the soil with new nutrients. According to a Replenishing Soil Fertility in Africa report this has left over 60% of soils being phosphorus-deficient.
https://farmbizafrica.com/western-farmers-pour-tanzanian-phosphorus-rocks-into-their-soils-tripling-yields/

At least Sh30 billion worth of agriculture funding has been halted in Kenya following the United State’s 90-day suspensi...
03/02/2025

At least Sh30 billion worth of agriculture funding has been halted in Kenya following the United State’s 90-day suspension of all foreign aid.

The US government through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) currently has eight umbrella agriculture projects running in Kenya that directly benefit up to five million farmers, pastoralists, and mainly rural households and up to seven million people indirectly. This year alone, USAID had set aside five billion shillings ($39 million) for agriculture in Kenya.
https://farmbizafrica.com/millions-of-youth-women-arid-farmers-hardest-hit-by-americas-30-billion-agriculture-funding-halt/

One of Africa’s leading sunn h**p seed suppliers is adding 30+ new farmers to his client book every three months, as sav...
31/01/2025

One of Africa’s leading sunn h**p seed suppliers is adding 30+ new farmers to his client book every three months, as savvy growers push demand for the natural fertiliser to build back their soils and yields.

From supplying just a handful of farmers in 2017, Samuel Munge delivers around 10 tonnes of sunn h**p monthly to over 100 farmers.

When sunn h**p is planted and then dug back into the soil it can increase maize yields by between 8–27% without adding any extra nitrogen fertiliser.

https://farmbizafrica.com/seeds-supplier-sourcing-sunn-h**p-from-100-farmers/

Across Kenya, in Kilifi, Kwale, Kakuma, Embu, West Pokot, the informal settlements of Kawangware, Mukuru Kwa Njenga, and...
31/01/2025

Across Kenya, in Kilifi, Kwale, Kakuma, Embu, West Pokot, the informal settlements of Kawangware, Mukuru Kwa Njenga, and Kibera poor farmers who were previously on the fringes of the larger economy are now leasing shambas, buying agricultural inputs, sinking water wells, buying and selling their crop, all with little engagement with the country’s national currency but through Sarafu ya Jamii, a community inclusive digital currency.
https://farmbizafrica.com/poor-kenyan-farmers-adopt-digital-currencies-to-raise-their-economic-output/

Savvy livestock and poultry farmers are researching and formulating their own animal feeds from abandoned food crops and...
30/01/2025

Savvy livestock and poultry farmers are researching and formulating their own animal feeds from abandoned food crops and ‘waste’ products that outperform the nutritional value of storebought feeds.

One such farmer is the proprietor of Pwani Farm in Kwale. The rancher who houses more than one million livestock and poultry on his farm informs that none of his dairy or beef cattle, chickens, guinea fowls or thousands of ornamental birds has ever tasted commercial store feeds.

“I have developed my current feeding formulation which has 30 per cent more protein content than store bought feeds through more than a decade of research, trying out and adjusting various feeding formulations,” he said.
https://farmbizafrica.com/farmers-research-for-years-in-search-of-perfect-feed-formula-from-abandoned-crops-and-waste-products/

Biting economic times have seen many khat users switch to the far cheaper muguka making the green leaf as popular as i...
29/01/2025

Biting economic times have seen many khat users switch to the far cheaper muguka making the green leaf as popular as it has ever been. So why is Embu’s green losing some of its lustre?

While the farmgate price of Muguka can dip to as low as Sh50/kg during the wet months, seedlings sell for 45-30 shillings throughout the year.

“A lot of our people realised that they could make far more selling seedlings than the actual crop. Now we have weekly lorryfulls of muguka seedlings going to Lamu and Voi Counties which are some of our main markets. In a couple of years, where exactly do we think our buyers will come from?”
https://farmbizafrica.com/to-sell-or-not-to-sell-the-battle-over-muguka-seedlings/

Marmanet Farm in Laikipia has increased its avocado harvests and avoided its exports being rejected by adding a pest-s...
29/01/2025

Marmanet Farm in Laikipia has increased its avocado harvests and avoided its exports being rejected by adding a pest-stinging organic mix of hot pepper and Mexican marigold w**d to its catalogue of pesticides.

The pesticide which can be used on all other fruits and crops has kept off thrips, mites, and caterpillars that were sinking the farm after one tone of hass avocados was barred from entering the European market because of having high chemical residue.
https://farmbizafrica.com/avocado-farm-sees-150-fruit-increase-shifting-to-w**d-and-pepper-pesticide/

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