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Climate change will make Arabica coffee impossible to grow in Kenya in the near future?Famed for its slightly sweet tas...
03/01/2025

Climate change will make Arabica coffee impossible to grow in Kenya in the near future?

Famed for its slightly sweet taste and fruity aroma, Arabica coffee is grown by almost all of Kenya’s coffee farmers. Compared to the more heat-tolerant Robusta, it is easily affected by shifts in average temperatures beyond the 18-22°C.

An investigation on the impact of climate change on Kenyan coffee farmers warned that 93% of growers had experienced the effects of climate change in the form of more erratic rainfall and an increase in pests and diseases.

The survey conducted in Kenya’s coffee heartland of Nyeri, Kirinyaga, and Embu counties alarmingly noted that extreme weather caused a loss in yield and in turn incomes. In the longer term, it threatened farmers’ ability to grow coffee.
https://farmbizafrica.com/climate-change-cuts-coffee-farmer-incomes-threatens-kenyas-ability-to-grow-crop/

While the retail price of cooking oil has risen to over Sh320, an almost 40% jump in the last two years, avocadoes– a ri...
03/01/2025

While the retail price of cooking oil has risen to over Sh320, an almost 40% jump in the last two years, avocadoes– a rich source of natural cooking oil are rotting on farms across Kenya.

This has pushed farmers such as Japhet Kabesa in Vihiga County to look into processing avocadoes into cooking oil.

“For years we’ve been lamenting about a lack of market for our fruits, the bulk of which rot on our farms while we continue paying ever-rising prices for cooking oil.

We have collectivised as a group of 300 farmers with over 2,000 trees and are looking into setting up an avocado cooking oil business which we hope will arrest this,” said Japhet on the phone with Farmbiz looking for an avocado oil extractor.
https://farmbizafrica.com/wastage-soaring-cooking-oil-prices-point-farmers-to-avocado-value-addition/

Bamboo liquid smoke diluted in water has been shown to be the most superior wood vinegar capable of increasing vegetable...
02/01/2025

Bamboo liquid smoke diluted in water has been shown to be the most superior wood vinegar capable of increasing vegetable growth and production by 20.2% while cutting pesticide use by half.

Made by ‘cooking’ bamboo in airless jikos. It naturally eliminates major pests for African farmers, such as fruit flies, termites, aphids, and mites, as well as fungal and bacterial infection.
https://farmbizafrica.com/ugandan-farmers-create-fertiliser-from-bamboo-smoke/

Kevin Onsongo, a farmer in Malindi credits okra for moving him from maize and cassava subsistence farming in 2021 to run...
02/01/2025

Kevin Onsongo, a farmer in Malindi credits okra for moving him from maize and cassava subsistence farming in 2021 to running a six-acre horticulture moneymaker.

"You’ll never lack at least two acres of okra on my farm regardless of the market price. Between 24th July and the end of August we were selling a kilo for 20 bob which made many farmers abandon the crop, now the prices have swung back to 50 bob a kilo. But, regardless of the price, I guarantee you I’ll always be here farming okra,” he pointed out.
https://farmbizafrica.com/malindi-farmer-finds-low-cost-entry-into-rich-commercial-farming-with-okra/

THE LAND I KNEW IS GONE.In a seat down interview with Henry, one of our reporters at the Coast, 72 year old Kilifi elder...
31/12/2024

THE LAND I KNEW IS GONE.

In a seat down interview with Henry, one of our reporters at the Coast, 72 year old Kilifi elder Joseph Chiwai relates his everyday lived experience over the years with the destruction caused by climate change that has seen his once-thriving farmland with fertile soils and lush vegetation at Kauma in Kilifi South turn into a barren landscape.
https://farmbizafrica.com/the-land-i-knew-is-gone-kilifi-elder-relates-the-everyday-destruction-caused-by-climate-change/

In Kenya’s coastal region, a regular w**d, Mchunga (bitter lettuce) also called Mtsunga wa Utsungu in Chonyi, is turning...
27/12/2024

In Kenya’s coastal region, a regular w**d, Mchunga (bitter lettuce) also called Mtsunga wa Utsungu in Chonyi, is turning into a reliable source of income for market vendors, who are earning up to Sh3,000 a sack.
Known for its nutritional and medicinal properties, this traditional vegetable grows wild in bushes and fallow lands, thriving without pesticides or fertilisers and maturing in just three weeks and is gaining popularity as locals return to indigenous crops.
https://farmbizafrica.com/mchunga-3-week-w**d-earns-for-market-sellers-in-coastal-kenya/

Faced with a global problem of land degradation, Kaya Godoma farm farmers in Ganze on Kenya’s coast are turning the glob...
26/12/2024

Faced with a global problem of land degradation, Kaya Godoma farm farmers in Ganze on Kenya’s coast are turning the global technology that uses engineered Subsurface Water Retention membranes and nano clays that cost millions into less than Sh1,290 plastic sheets and burnt crop waste to hold back the desert.
They are now getting 200 kilograms of Okra from a quarter of an acre that previously gave them almost nothing
https://farmbizafrica.com/farmers-turn-sand-into-soil-with-low-cost-spin-on-global-technologies/

Have you tried growing drought tolerant fast maturing beans such as Nyota, KATRAM, Zebra, Waithera, Mwezi Moja?From in...
26/12/2024

Have you tried growing drought tolerant fast maturing beans such as Nyota, KATRAM, Zebra, Waithera, Mwezi Moja?

From interviews with farmers and research, we have found that farmers who are suffering from increasingly poor rains who shift from local and old bean varieties to growing drought tolerant beans that grow in just two months are getting up to 66% more yields than those who don't during the current short rains farming season.

To find out more: https://farmbizafrica.com/farmers-get-60-more-harvests-growing-drought-tolerant-beans-in-poor-rains/

Did you know cows also enjoy beer and even better it reduces your feed costs?Suppliers of brewer waste, more commonly ca...
24/12/2024

Did you know cows also enjoy beer and even better it reduces your feed costs?

Suppliers of brewer waste, more commonly called machicha, are seeing booming sales as farmers turn to the waste from beer making to halve the high cost of dairy meal.

The waste from beer making, which costs Sh12.5 a kilogram in Kenya, can partly replace dairy meal concentrate, which costs Sh41 a kilogram.

To learn more: https://farmbizafrica.com/boom-in-beer-waste-sales-as-it-halves-dairy-meal-costs-for-farmers/

Have you heard of directly grown rice? From next year, Kenyan farmers will be able to grow rice varieties that are plant...
23/12/2024

Have you heard of directly grown rice?

From next year, Kenyan farmers will be able to grow rice varieties that are planted directly in their paddies or farmlands which means they mature 8 to 14 days earlier than transplanted rice. They also cut out the labour involved in preparing rice nurseries and transplanting seedlings and produce up to 20% more yield per acre.

To learn more: https://farmbizafrica.com/researchers-introduce-faster-maturing-directly-grown-rice/

Morning farmers.We are looking for anyone who has grown a crop people know very little about, bitter lettuce or Muthunga...
23/12/2024

Morning farmers.

We are looking for anyone who has grown a crop people know very little about, bitter lettuce or Muthunga in Kikuyu.

Please contact us to tell us your story and experiences

(Photo: Bitter lettuce in a farm, Lango Mbaya, Kenya.
© Maundu, 2000, Adeka et al., 2005.)

Have you tried the early growing, drought resistant beans available in Kenya? How have you found their performance?Nyota...
20/12/2024

Have you tried the early growing, drought resistant beans available in Kenya? How have you found their performance?

Nyota, Kenya Mali, and Zebra beans mature in 60-70 days, half as long as other beans, which makes them perfect for short rains, especially now when the rains have been poor across country.

Is it the rich Kisii soils that can grow the indigenous spider plant, more commonly called saga or saget, healthily and ...
19/12/2024

Is it the rich Kisii soils that can grow the indigenous spider plant, more commonly called saga or saget, healthily and with absolutely no fertiliser or pesticides, or is it the expert hands of the women of Nyamira North Women Sacco that makes their saga a big hit with buyers from neighbouring Kisumu and Eldoret counties?

Either answer, here is a story of how a women's group is earning its members Sh77,500 weekly by supplying 500 kilograms of leaves and 1,000 kilograms of young fresh shoots weekly of the nutrient-rich traditional African vegetables
https://farmbizafrica.com/nyamira-women-earn-sh77500-weekly-supplying-in-demand-indigenous-veg-to-neighboring-counties/

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With often just a third of a football field, smallholder farmers and their families face extremely dry conditions every day. At FarmBiz Africa, we've delivered over 4,000 methods for growing crops in arid climates, reaching readers in 139 countries. Now, we aim to help even more farmers. Support us in the link in our bio!

Kenya has suffered extreme rains in many areas, but a dry year at the Coast sees many farmers losing yet another maize harvest, almost in its entirety. What’s been your experience? 📽️Fadhili Frederick (https://www.facebook.com/little.obi.3)

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