SOURCE: Agatha Ngotho, The Star Farmers in Taita Taveta county have been trained on better agronomy in banana farming. The move seeks to help farmers increase crop yield, boost food security and improve their income. Scientists from Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI) in Kenya trained the smallholder farmersContinue Reading
SOURCE: Kevin Rotich, CapitalFM Kenya is looking for avocado markets in Malaysia as it finalizes import requirements in the Asian country. Kenya’s High Commissioner to Malaysia, Francis Muhoro, wrote a letter to the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate (KEPHIS) to finalize import requirements for commodities. Malaysia offers an untapped market forContinue Reading
SOURCE: Joy Mailu and Esther Nzangi, Kenya News Makueni will host the first ever Mango Conference in May, Makueni Governor Mutula Kilonzo Jnr has announced. Mutula said the Conference will bring together mango producers, vendors and investors in the fruit industry. “The first Mango Conference in Kenya, bringing all mangoContinue Reading
SOURCE: Manny Anyango, The Star Kenya exported Sh7 billion avocados to china in three months leading to October. Kenya Export Promotion and Branding Agency says China is a key market for fresh and frozen Kenyan avocados. “Statista estimates, the market value of avocado in 2022 is $15.5 billion (Sh1.9 trillion),”Continue Reading
SOURCE: fb/jd, TVP World Farmers in Kenya are starting to shift from traditionally grown maize to avocados because of their better prices and yields. One such farmer, Albert Gumo, started his avocado journey just over a month ago and has already had two successful harvests. He is happy with theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Gerald Andae, Business Daily Africa Malaysia and India are the latest big buyers eyeing Kenya’s avocado after China as the fruit continues to attract more international markets. The Business Daily has learnt that officials from Malaysia are currently in the country carrying out a pest risk analysis on theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Florence Kinyua and Bernard Munyao, Kenya News Agency Adverse effects of climate change have hit many farmers in Murang’a County in the recent past leading to poor food production and meager returns. For the past two rainy seasons Murang’a has witnessed prolonged dry spells with the county recording lessContinue Reading
SOURCE: Joe McCarthy, Global Citizen Avocado trees have shallow, fibrous roots that are good at holding topsoil in place. They’re also fast-growing, and can yield fruit in a few years. When members of GLOBAL G.L.O.W., working with the Rift Valley Reading Association in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley, were thinking ofContinue Reading
SOURCE: Mercy Osongo, Kenya News The acting Devolution Cabinet Secretary, Eugene Wamalwa Tuesday commissioned a banana processing plant on the outskirts of Kisii town. Speaking during the function which was held at the plant site, Wamalwa said the banana plant is well-placed in a county that is one of theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Pauline Kairu, The East African Kenya has stepped up the use of the encyrtid wasp to manage the papaya mealybug, which is ranked among top pests affecting papaya and other horticultural crops. The mealybug is also a serious threat to greenhouse farms and can devastate whole crops if leftContinue Reading
SOURCE: Fred Mientjes, Fruitnet The Kenyan avocado industry has received a welcome boost with China granting access to its fresh products. The deal to export avocados to China, which was originally agreed in April 2019 between Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, has finally come toContinue Reading
The joint extensive efforts by All Pakistan Fruit and Vegetable Exporters Association (PFVA), Department of Plant Production (DPP) serving under the Federal Ministry of National Food Security and Research and Ministry of Commerce, have paved the way for Pakistan’s huge revenue generation from the important international market of Kenya inContinue Reading