Seven Kenyan agricultural companies receive over $5m from US agencies to improve the sector
A total of seven growing agricultural companies in Kenya have received, from a number of United States agencies, a grant of $5.1 million (Ksh...
Kenya reintroduces Artemia farming in Kilfi County
The Maseno University and the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (Kemfri) has reintroduced Artemia farming to produce fish feeds.
Artemia is an aquatic insect...
Agriculture 4.0? BKT responds with the Flotation range
Digitalization, technology and sustainability, or, in other words, agriculture 4.0. We are talking about the trend that is having the widest-ranging impact on the...
Senegalese “Agripreneur” and AfDB AgriPitch Competition winner says digital marketing key to luxury tea...
The competition, which this year awarded $140,000 in prizes, is a key activity of the Bank’s ENABLE Youth Program
Senegalese businesswoman Adja Sembene Fall said...
First batch of smallholder farmers successful completes hands on training on potato production
In a quest to empower subsistence and smallholder farmers in the Province, the North-West Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (NWDARD) has recently trained...
Kisii County in Kenya to benefit from 25,000 fingerlings
Fish farmers in Nyaribari Chache Sub County of Kisii in Kenya are set to benefit from a 25,000 fingerlings to boost production.
The donation is...
Nutritional quality must be at the heart of climate smart agriculture’ – researchers
Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa need to diversify away from growing maize and switch to crops that are resilient to climate change and supply enough...
Saai takes on creditors to keep family farmers on their farms
A dramatic increase in suicide among framers – whose lives have become unbearable during the drought as a result of high debt, unsympathetic banks...
How Does “The Global Agro-Paradox” Creates Poverty, And How To Fix It?
According to the dictionary, a paradox is "a statement or proposition that, despite sounds reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems...
Generation Africa awards US$100,000 to two young agripreneurs
After impressive on-stage pitches to an expert panel of judges earlier this week, Esther Kimani founder of FarmerLifeLine Technologies in Kenya and Mark Musinguzi...