Sorghum is steadily becoming one of the highest potential cereals in Kenya, especially in the semi-arid areas. This is due to its drought-resistant nature and the availability of a ready market. East Africa Maltings Limited (EAML) places its current annual demand at 40,000 MT. Out of the 40,000MT, only about 15,000 MT is being sourced […]
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The levying of Agriculture Produce Cess (APC) is one the most significant barrier to trade for agricultural producers across the country. A study conducted by Dr Daniel K. Karugu in 2017 revealed that multiple and high agricultural cess rates were being charged arbitrarily and with no justification for the rates applied across different counties. Even
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The planting season is one of the most expensive times for farmers in the cropping calendar. Farmers must dig deeper into their pockets for seeds and fertilizer. All this with the escalating cost of farm inputs, notwithstanding. Data from our wheat farmers register for example confirms an average wheat production rate of fifteen 90kg bags
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By Mathews Ndanyi Agriculture officials in North Rift fear that cereal production will drop by a big margin after the government decided not to import subsidised fertiliser. The input is likely to go up by more than 200 per cent in the open market. The National Cereals and Produce Board has been selling the subsidised
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The World Health Organization (WHO) states that food security achieved “when all people, at all times have physical and economic access to adequate, sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life”. It is not just about physical availability of food. It is more about
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Barely two months to the onset of next planting season, there is no government subsidised fertilizer in sight. In what could lead to a food crisis in the country, most farmers in the North Rift, the country\’s bread basket, are also yet to prepare their farms ahead of long rain season expected to begin in March.
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Environmentalists are fighting to lock chemical manufacturers out of State’s lucrative fall army worm control plan after the Agriculture Ministry warned of the return of the dreaded pests. The environmentalists, alarmed that the millions of shillings spent on chemicals in the last season has not eradicated the pest, want the ministry to turn to ecological
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A stunning landscape of lush green looking farmlands stretching for miles past the forested hills and river networks, defines the landscape of Kilgoris. Kilgoris is a town in Trans Mara West Sub-county in Narok county. This town is home to fifty-five-year-old Chief Simion Koiseta an unsung hero in the village of Romosha. Simion Ole Koiseta
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By Jaindi Kisero President Uhuru Kenyatta must have had good intentions when he recently announced that the government would buy maize from farmers at Sh 2,500 per bag. It was an improvement from the first offer that the government had announced of Sh2,000. Yet while the Sh2,500 per bag offer made for good politics, it
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CGA is encouraging Famers in Siaya to venture into cultivation of sorghum as cash crop in order to improve their economic livelihoods. Speaking when he met Sorghum farmers and opinion leaders in Bondo Sub County, Siaya county Cereals Growers Association Field Extension Officer Mr Brian Etemesi told farmers to grow the improved variety of sorghum
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