Category: Farming guides
Mango Orchard Spacing and Canopy Management: How to Build a Productive, Manageable Orchard
A mango orchard can start with healthy trees and still become difficult to manage if the trees are planted too closely or allowed to develop into oversized, overcrowded canopies. As the trees mature, branches compete for light, spraying becomes more difficult, harvesting costs rise and parts of the canopy may become excessively shaded. Spacing and …
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Mango Fruit Fly Management in Kenya: An Integrated Approach to Protecting Fruit Quality and Yield
Mango fruit fly is one of the pests that can turn a promising mango crop into a major source of losses. A farmer may have healthy trees, good flowering and plenty of developing fruit, only to find that mangoes begin dropping prematurely or show internal damage when cut open. The difficulty is that much of …
Mango Flowering and Fruit Set: Why a Heavy Bloom Does Not Always Mean a Heavy Harvest
A mango tree can produce an impressive flush of flowers and still leave a farmer with very few fruits at harvest. The reason is that flowering is only the beginning of the yield formation process. Between flower emergence and a marketable mango lies a chain of events involving pollination, fertilization, fruit set, water availability, nutrition, …
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Mango Harvesting: How to Judge Maturity Before Picking
A mango can look large enough to harvest and still be too immature for the market. Conversely, leaving fruit on the tree for too long can increase the risk of softening, bruising, fruit drop and poor post-harvest quality. For Kenyan mango growers, judging maturity correctly is therefore more important than simply picking when the fruit …
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Avocado Nutrition: What the Tree Needs at Different Growth Stages
An avocado tree does not have the same nutritional needs throughout the year. The requirements of a newly planted tree establishing roots and shoots are different from those of a mature tree carrying a heavy crop. Nutrition also has to respond to the tree’s growth flushes, flowering, fruit set, fruit enlargement and recovery after harvest. …
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Strawberry Planting and Spacing Guide in Kenya: How to Establish a Productive Strawberry Field
A strawberry field can look well planted from a distance and still be poorly established. Plants that are too close compete for light, air and nutrients, while excessive spacing wastes valuable land and can make weed control more difficult. For commercial growers, the planting pattern therefore has to balance plant population, airflow, access, irrigation and …
Passion Fruit Flowering and Fruiting Problems
Passion fruit can produce vigorous vines covered with flowers and still give a disappointing harvest. A farmer may see plenty of flowers but very few fruits, young fruits that drop soon after setting, small or hollow fruits, or fruits that develop an unusual shape. These problems do not always have the same cause. Poor pollination, …
Dragon Fruit Common Diseases and How to Manage Them
Dragon fruit is generally considered a relatively hardy fruit crop, but it is not free from disease problems. The crop’s succulent stems and high moisture content can make infected tissues deteriorate rapidly when conditions favor pathogens. Disease problems become particularly important in orchards with poor drainage, excessive irrigation, dense canopies, prolonged rainfall, wounds on stems, …
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Dragon Fruit Planting and Spacing Guide for Kenyan Farmers
Dragon fruit is not planted like an ordinary orchard fruit tree. It is a climbing cactus that produces long, heavy stems and needs a permanent support structure from the beginning. The success of the orchard therefore depends on getting three things right before planting: site drainage, support design and plant spacing. For Kenyan farmers, this …
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Passion Fruit Cost of Production Per Acre in Kenya: A Practical Budget for Establishment and Farm Management
Passion fruit can be an attractive commercial crop, but the cost of establishing an acre is higher than the price of seedlings alone suggests. A farmer has to budget for trellising, land preparation, manure and fertilizer, irrigation where necessary, labor, crop protection and other recurring expenses. The biggest mistake is to calculate passion fruit profitability …
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