Month: December 2024

Low interest rates and improved governance disbursement systems have encouraged coffee farmers to increase borrowing from the Coffee Cherry Advance Revolving Fund.  This is according to the New KPCU Managing Director Timothy Mirugi who says the ongoing reforms in the coffee sector has made it easy for farmers to access the funds hence the increased …

Low interest rates, reforms spur high loans uptake by coffee farmersRead More

Livestock farmers across the country have been urged to embrace regular vaccination, which will protect them from losses occasioned by the death of their livestock during disease outbreaks. The Director of Veterinary Services (DVS), Dr. Allan Azegele, called on farmers who are not willing to have the government vaccination to undertake their own private vaccination …

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Nandi County Governor Stephen Sang, through the National Agricultural Value Chain Development Project (NAVCPD), has unveiled 210 young agricultural entrepreneurs. They will aid in providing essential extension services starting next year in a bid to enhance quality agricultural practices as well as promote sustainable growth within the sector. NAVCPD is a community-driven project that seeks …

Nandi unveils 210 young agricultural entrepreneursRead More

A livestock officer in Igembe South sub-county has advised residents to shun long-held myths about rabbit farming and consumption and urged them to embrace rearing the bunny for its numerous health, economic, and agricultural benefits. Speaking to KNA, Benjamin Inanga Koome noted that various myths and misconceptions have been a great hindrance to the adoption …

Shun myths and embrace rabbit farming, livestock officer advisesRead More

The Kenyan community is currently whirling in a serious traditional food deficit that has seen very little such food finding its way onto people’s tables. The reason being, the country’s citizens have diverted to embracing the western-pushed foods to the point of despising the once-loved and popular foods among the age groups of the elderly …

Kenyan traditional foods fast disappearing from menusRead More

The National Agricultural Value Chain Development Project (NAVCDP) is working to complete the Gathanji Irrigation Project that is earmarked to benefit 2000 households drawn from semi-arid parts of Nakuru County. The over Sh200 million project expected to cover Naishi game, Kengoye, and Mugumo areas of Njoro Sub-County, which is at 70 per cent completion, will …

Irrigation project to transform 2,000 householdsRead More

Following strained rains as the Meteorological Department had predicted in some parts of the country this year, livestock farmers have been advised to venture into fast-maturing fodder farming to cushion them during dry spells. Consequently, the farmers have been advised to choose fodder that also requires less water to grow. A training facilitator and head …

Farmers urged to adopt fast-maturing fodder for drought resilienceRead More

Kenya is far from fully exploiting her potentials in beekeeping because local farmers largely practice small scale holdings mainly for consumption within the family household. Although the country has the potential to produce at least 100,000 metric tones of honey annually beekeepers have only managed a paltry 20 percent of the projected amount because majority …

Kivaa Youth venture on Commercial beekeepingRead More

Kiambu Governor Kiamani Wamatangi today launched a piglet’s donation initiative aimed at empowering young men to become agribusiness entrepreneurs. The event that took place in Gatundu North Sub-County, Mangu Ward saw over 30 select groups of young men receive donations of piglets and animal feed. The piglet distribution is part of Governor Wamatangi’s grassroots empowerment …

Wamatangi launches a piglet donation program to empower menRead More