Agribusiness

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…

Under this partnership, key partners, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the United States African Development Foundation (USADF), are providing support to further…

But beneath this ‘buzzing fright’, lies essential contribution to the ecosystem- pollination. According to the website sos-bees.org, published by Greenpeace, a non-governmental environmental…

For the first time, IBM is providing a global agriculture solution that combines predictive technology with data from The Weather Company, an IBM Business, and IoT data to help give farmers…

Nestle has renewed its Nescafe Plan in Kenya, this time with a focus on women. The multinational food and drink giant is going to spend Sh23million(over $227,000) to empower coffee growing…

Kenyan farmers dealing in the highly popular Hass avocado are set to benefit as Uhuru affirmed that the two countries had agreed on a new export deal for the fruit. "The avocado export…