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…

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 May this year in parts of Western, Northern and Southern provinces, and the City of Kigali.

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 prices will be a final act of destruction for the industry.

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 roll out the MFN platform across Uganda making transacting much safer and simpler for many more stakeholders in the agricultural value chain – the farmer, the buyer and the agent.

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 organization, a third of the food we consume depends on pollination from bees and other pollinating insects.

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 around the world greater insights about planning, plowing, planting, spraying and harvesting.

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…