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2022 Kenya Elections: Agriculture in the Kenya Kwanza Manifesto
On 9th August 2022, Kenyans went to vote to pick between the two leading parties UDA and Kenya Kwanza. Both parties advanced their manifestos, which held promises to Kenyans once they took over the government. This is a deeper look at what the Kenya Kwanza party has in store for the agriculture industry. With great…
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Blossom End Rot in Kenya
Nothing upsets a farmer like a spoilt fruit! After months of patiently tending your crop, finally, the fruits emerge but something is off! A large roundish wound appears on the skin of the fruit at one end of the fruit, and it starts to go dark and bad. This is a classic symptom of Blossom…
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Fertilizer Use at Various Stages in Kenya
Fertilizers to use at planting Maize and other cereals (Sorghum, Millet) farmers in Kenya commonly use Di-ammonium phosphate for planting (DAP) when planting, however, Nitrogen- Phosphorus- Potassium (NPK 15-15-15 NPK) can also be used. For both fertilizers, the application rate is 50kgs per Acre. Only a small amount almost a teaspoon is applied to each…
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Growing Up in the Countryside
Let me start by saying, I really didn’t grow up in the countryside, but I am no city girl either. Every holiday and this was thrice a year, we the children of my parent would be ceremoniously whisked off to grandma`s (ushago) for the entire period of the holiday. Ceremoniously you ask? This is because…
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2017 Kenya’s Elections Effect on Agriculture
Let’s all be sincere, a kind of Euphoria mixed with despair often befalls us as we enter the election year. Euphoria because elections represent change, an opportunity for us to make big decisions, a stage for our voices to be heard, it is our time as citizens to shine. The leaders take their time to woe…
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Following In Our Father’s Footsteps
60 years old, is the average age of a Kenyan farmer. Yet our population comprises of 78% youth aged 14-35years, who have no interest at all in farming. Most of these 60 years old farmers educate their sons and daughter to be Doctors, Lawyers and Entrepreneurs. At their time of death, these great sons and…
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What are the opportunities for the Agriculture Kenyan Graduate?
Like me, if you stumbled into agriculture or better still JAB in their indefinite wisdom chose this as your degree program, what and where are the opportunities? I chose agriculture in high school as the lesser evil to French which I was so ecstatic about, only later to find that I couldn’t learn a new…
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Products Watch
Fungicides In this cold weather, we are bound to catch the flu, Crops too are very susceptible during the cold and rainy seasons. Different crops get different diseases all caused by fungal infections. For example vegetables like tomatoes, Potatoes, Sweet Peppers, kale cabbages & spinach the diseases are almost similar this includes Early & late…
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Agriculture in Nairobi what are your options?
It’s hard to imagine the possibility of doing Agriculture in Nairobi let alone practice it, but it is possible. Am not talking about the pretty potted plants in our lofty offices in the urban centers or the unkempt trees and shrubs that align our streets but food production and if well done it can even…