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• Pests

Fungicide spray that can help farmers control five field pests

8 years ago Reporter

Farmer spraying his tomato crop with a fungicide. Real (IPM) fungicide has Mrtarhizium anisopliae fungi which are classified into metarhizium 62, 69,...

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• Crops

Plan to improve regional road networks, good news for small-scale farmers

8 years ago Reporter

Trader delivering her tomatoes to the market. Poor roads remain the single largest barrier between millions of small-scale farmers and the marketplace....

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• Pests

Kenya to host conference to discuss ways to control Fall Armyworm in June 2018

8 years ago Reporter

Agriculture experts dealing in crop production will meet for the 2018 phytosanitary conference at KEPHIS headquarters from 4th to 8th...

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• Crops

Kenyan flower and vegetable farmers to learn new ways to make money in farming at trade trip in Netherlands

8 years ago Reporter

Frmers learning on various farming practices during a past agricultural show. Kenyan farmers especially from horticulture sector are set to...

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• Crops

Farmers count on grafting for more yields and incomes

8 years ago Reporter

Grafted avocado seedling. Grafting has now become farmer’s silver bullet in saving them from incessant pest and disease woes. Ongoing...

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• Markets

Avocado exporter looking for 10,000 farmers to grow the crop

8 years ago Reporter

Benard Kimutai of Fair Trade Enterprises Limited holding grafted hass avocado seedling. With him are some farmers during Meru National...

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• Markets

Farmer selling grafted apple varieties that mature within one year

8 years ago Reporter

Nyeri farmer Wilson Ndung’u is selling grafted apple varieties that can yield three times more fruits within one year as...

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• Markets

Sacco offering soft loan to farmer groups

8 years ago Reporter

Frmers during a past agricultural event. Small-scale farmers can now access loans with an interest rate of 1.2 per cent...

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• Crops

Maize production to decline by 30 per cent as farmers face shortage of two million bags of fertilizer

8 years ago Reporter

Farmers in Kenya’s bread basket of Rift Valley face a shortage of two million bags of fertilizer at the ongoing...

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• Pests

Cheap and simple trap that can end Fall Armyworms in less than a week

8 years ago Reporter

Aaron Muteria of Kenya Biologics agronomist holding tutrack and pheromone packet which is part of the falltrack system used in trapping male...