Agribusiness

Liquid Telecom Tuesday partnered with Twiga Foods to increase agricultural productivity through precision farming enabled by Kenya's rapidly expanding Internet of Things (IoT) network.

Partnerships and collaboration between farmers and private investors have been identified as the strongest vehicles to rescue and revitalize the multi-billion agriculture sector.

The Competitive African Rice Initiative in East Africa (CARI-EA), which is being implemented jointly by the East African Community (EAC) and Kilimo Trust (KT) seeks to improve the rice…

The President said there is need to ensure the sustainability of the agricultural sector by encouraging the participation of the nation's youth through technology and innovation.

The platform builds on the current Mastercard Farmer Network and will be enriched by Rabobank’s expertise and reach in the food and agricultural sectors across Europe, Africa and Asia.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, an estimated five out of close to eight million Kenyan households depend directly on agriculture for their livelihoods.

Local sugar millers may be forced to import from Uganda and Tanzania cane to produce the commodity because of the fast scarce supplies from Kenyan farmers who supply 92 per cent of the raw…

Available local tea consumption data from the Tea Directorate of the Agriculture and Foods authority shows that Kenyans consume only 5 percent of the total tea produced in the country.

The farmers are part of those affected by disasters as had been predicted by the National Climate Outlook released in February this year which anticipated heavy rainfall between March and…

The farmers report that the heavily bureaucratic regime proposed, which demands selling of cane to only one, designated mill with no free market and introduces new controls over seeds and…