SOURCE: Salome Alwanda, Kenya News It is around 5.00 pm and the hot sun in Busia begins to cool down. I then decide to venture out just to find more about the jackfruit. My adventure takes me to a billboard structure along Busia – Korinda road where I find aContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Star Kenya topped Africa’s avocado exports last year and was among the world’s top 10 producers, with Murang’a leading with 31 percent of total production. However, the country only exported 10 percent of its total avocado production an indicator that the market potential is not fully exploited. HorticultureContinue Reading
SOURCE: Tom Joyce, Fruitnet Since avocados are a water-intensive crop, growing them where there are no other competing water demands is critical, according to Kenyan avocado producer and exporter Kakuzi. If not, the company states, criticism will always be levelled at the fruit as “green gold causing environmental havoc”. ToContinue Reading
SOURCE: Xinhua/Global Times Kenya’s exports of avocados hit 72,000 tons in 2020, up from 59,000 tons recorded in the previous year, a government official said on Wednesday. “The increase in export volumes was partly due to enhanced cultivation of avocado by Kenyan farmers over the past five years,” Benjamin Tito,Continue Reading
SOURCE: Business Daily Export prices of avocado have risen to Sh800 (USD 7.15) per four-kilogramme pack in November, propped up demand for the few supplies available in the market as the main crop season dragged to a close. Data by the Horticulture Directorate shows that the November prices represented aContinue Reading
SOURCE: China.org Kenya is likely to resume exports of mangoes to the European Union (EU) in December after a period of five years, a government official said on Tuesday. Benjamin Tito, director, Horticultural Crops Directorate told Xinhua in Nairobi, that the country imposed an export ban of the crop dueContinue Reading
The construction of a Sh117 million (USD 203k) modern banana market in Nyamache, Kisii county, has started.Continue Reading
While most people are staying at home due to the disruption of day-to-day activities by the Covid-19 pandemic, one couple in Uasin Gishu County is making the best out of it.Continue Reading
SOURCE: IPP Media Through the ambitious project, beneficiary farmers are trained to embrace best agronomic practices, including soil fertility, ways of conserving soil moisture and to mitigate common banana pests and diseases. Other practices are creation of basins for harvesting water, banana weevils trapping and pairing of planting suckers. ThroughContinue Reading
SOURCE: Ann Macharia, Daily Nation Carol, a farmer in Kiambu County, sent me some photos from her passion fruit plantation the other day, asking me to help her diagnose the problem and offer solution. From the pictures, I could tell she had done good management practices like training, weed controlContinue Reading
Original Source: Pius Maundu, Daily Nation A drive on the Machakos-Wote Road at this particular time of the year leaves many in awe, especially the first-time visitors. The area is dotted with thousands of mango trees that can be spotted from afar, with their branches sagging under the weight ofContinue Reading
Tana River-based mango pulp manufacturer, Galole Fruit Processing Factory, is back in operation after years of being dormant. The factory, which has been revived at a cost about Sh67 million (USD 116k), will now diversify its operations, incorporating a Sh5.4 million bottled water processing plant with the capacity toContinue Reading