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24/04/2025

It’s been a minute, but in the depths of Covid in 2020, AFA published a list of all the 658 exporters licensed to buy and export from Kenyan farmers with their phone numbers. 98% of farm export sales are through these exporters, earning farmers 20%-30% more than local sales.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/exporters-list-opens-pathway-to-20-better-prices-for-kenyan-farmers/ we link you to the exporters list to open the way for our readers and followers to fast track to export sales.

24/04/2025

Dairy farmer Gerald Kiuna of North Kinangop is earning 40% more for his milk by driving it straight to the processor. rather than selling to his coop, as Kenya’s Dairy Board reports farmers selling to processors are earning Sh65 per litre compared with Sh35-Sh55 being paid by coops.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/processors-paying-milk-farmers-40-more-than-coops/ we report the board’s findings and how farmers are connecting direct to earn better incomes.

24/04/2025

Of the thousands of weeds in East Africa, the ones that grow on your land tell you which crops will grow best in the same soil, seeing farmers ‘reading their weeds’ to get higher yields for their crops.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/weed-reading-kilifi-farmers-improve-yields-by-learning-from-invaders/ farmers tell us which weeds tell them most, and what each one shows about your soil and the crops that will thrive in that exact spot.

22/04/2025

Why are good rains less than good rains used to be - the answer is bare earth. Farmers burning their crop debris and leaving land bare for weeks are breaking the local rain cycle. Moisture entering the air from plants is the source of almost half our rainfall. Slashing the plants and ground cover slashes the rain.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/africas-drought-crisis-makes-new-plant-cover-urgent-to-create-more-rain/ we report on Africa’s falling rainfall and how bare earth is driving us into ever poorer rains.

22/04/2025

Savannah Honey last week opened collection centres in Kakamega and Eldoret - 2 of 20 for the 7000 contract beekeepers it is recruiting nationwide - paying Sh500 per kg for honey and Sh38,000 per kg of royal jelly as a guaranteed buyer.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/savannah-honey-opens-eldoret-and-kakamega-collection-centres-in-national-beekeeping-campaign/ we report on the free training and payment terms Kenya’s new beekeeping contractors will be getting.

21/04/2025

Kenyan farmers are getting into cocoa production, buying up cocoa seedlings at an accelerating rate and launching into a crop East Africans always saw as a West African preserve.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/kalro-cocoa-seedling-sales-up-158-as-kenyans-grow-homemade-chocolate-for-their-families-and-sales/ we report from local seedlings producer KALRO on its growth in cocoa seedling sales and from farmers now producing tonnes of cocoa and forming growers’ groups.

21/04/2025

When Samuel Mwangi got given 5 free fennel seedling, no one told him they could cure his biggest pest problem. He found out for himself that intercropping them ended his woes of aphids and whiteflies destroying his cauliflower crops - and doubled his cauliflower harvest.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/nyandarua-farmer-eliminates-east-africas-top-crop-pest-with-fennel/ Samuel tells his story of how he discovered the cure for East Africa’s top cause of farm losses, and how he manages it.

18/04/2025

Rita Nduati, a backyard farmer, lost 25 kgs in 10 months by replacing red meat with African eggplants in her diet. An African study found eating the eggplants, often called garden eggs or bitter tomatoes, reduced appetite and food intake leading to a 10 per cent fall in body weight in just two months in the overweight.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/makueni-mom-sheds-25-kgs-replacing-red-meat-with-african-eggplants/ we report on the science and the diet Rita used.

18/04/2025

Farmers growing high-value crops earn 5x more than traditional crop farmers, making the choice of crop on every acre the biggest decision each farmer makes in dictating their own wealth. Sugar, maize, and potatoes all force farmers into low earnings.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/farmers-growing-high-value-crops-earn-five-times-more-than-traditional-crop-farmers/ we give the results from real farmers and national statistics on crops that keep farmers poor and just some examples of the wealthy-farmer crops they have changed to, transforming their incomes from the same land.

17/04/2025

Monkeys destroy over 80% of many farmers’ crops, locking up family on the plot to drive them away or requiring farm guards. But monkeys hate the smell of chillies. Planting a ‘fence’ of chilli plants around the plot reduces the monkey damage to less than a fifth of its unprotected levels.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/chilli-walls-prevent-farm-wipeouts-from-monkey-attacks-while-adding-to-farmer-incomes/ we explain the monkey protection and how to do it.

17/04/2025

WARNING: Castor beans are Kenya’s fastest growing cash crop, but the beans are deadly if eaten by humans or animals. Eating just two beans can kill, yet over 90,000 Kenyan farmers grow this crop on contract: do NOT eat the beans.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/tackling-poisoning-from-castor-beans-kenyas-fast-growing-cash-crop/ we give the details of its poison and what to do if poisoned.

16/04/2025

Kenyan company Savannah Honey is recruiting 7000 contract farmers, nationwide, providing subsidised hives, free apiarists to colonise and manage the hives, and five year contracts buying the farmers’ honey.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/savannah-honey-launches-beekeeping-drive-contracting-7000-farmers-across-kenya/ FarmBizAfrica reports on the company’s nationwide recruitment programme and how to apply.

16/04/2025

Banks in Kenya are offering loans to farmers for boreholes, some of them financing 100% of the cost of Sh1m to Sh3m, leading to an immediate tripling in income as farms escape the losses from erratic rains and add a third season.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/banks-offer-borehole-loans-to-farmers/ we report the loan options, and their conditions, to help farmers upgrade to bigger business.

15/04/2025

Laikipia farmer Edward Kariuki was selling his pigs to traders at estimated weights of just 30kg-50kg until he discovered his animals were really averaging 40kg-100kg, when he used string measuring.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/laikipia-pig-farmer-doubles-profits-by-string-measuring-animals-weights/ we report how Edward more than doubled his earnings by measuring his pigs’ weights, and how to do that with no more than a piece of string and a tape measure.

15/04/2025

From a programme coordinator for the FAO and gene bank curator for the World Agroforestry Centre to a data analyst, and regional sales reps, https://farmbizafrica.com/roundup-agicultural-jobs-15th-april-2025/ gives the top 17 agricultural job vacancies in Kenya open for applications in the second half of April.

15/04/2025

Alex Maina is one of millions of farmers finding that using fertiliser too many times is reducing their harvests. In 2020, Alex abandoned fertiliser and began making his own spray, which has increased his green bean harvest by 40%.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/agronomist-invents-home-made-spray-to-lift-french-bean-harvest-over-40/ we give his home-made fertiliser recipe and the details of how he uses it to get faster, larger beans and reduce his pests.

14/04/2025

Herders in Kenya’s Baringo County have lifted their incomes by over 500% home-boiling wild aloe vera leaves to make precious gum.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/herders-make-5x-add-to-incomes-boiling-aloe-vera-leaves/ we report how they prepare the gum and sell it to Chinese buyers for almost Sh200 per kg.

11/04/2025

Seize the rain to plant white cross berry seeds, a top drought tree, to deliver nutritious fruit every year with almost no rain, growing 1.5 metres in its first 8 months, and creating everything from food and medicines to animal fodder.

Read https://farmbizafrica.com/the-iron-rich-fruit-tree-that-grows-on-rocks-with-less-than-100mm-of-rain/ for how to get the seed and the huge range of uses for this top scorer of drought trees.

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