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20/08/2025

Onesmus Muthuri moved into organic farming six years ago, delivering profit failure for years, until he shifted to pest-resistant strawberry varieties, which gave him 3x to 4x more fruit, and he began processing any damaged fruit into jams.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/strawberry-farmer-finds-organic-success-with-pest-resistant-harmony-variety-and-jams/ we report the varieties he tried and how Harmony and San Andrea gave way better results than Chandler

19/08/2025

An agripreneurs’ service across Kenya is offering safe spraying for small farmers at Sh50 to Sh100 a job to stop over 1/4 of Kenyan farmers making themselves sick by spraying pesticides wrongly, and save them up to Sh800 per spray from using too much pesticide.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/sh100-service-targets-over-%C2%BC-of-kenyan-farmers-falling-ill-on-pesticide-misuse/ we report the latest list of hundreds of trained sprayers with their locations and contacts

18/08/2025

Samuel Mwangi from Mbirithi ward, Nyandarua, switched into red cabbages because local hospitals and companies were asking him for the crop for its health benefits. He is now selling the red cabbage for 12x the price he was getting for his ordinary cabbages.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/healthy-red-cabbage-delivers-12x-price-of-green-cabbage-for-nyandarua-farmer/ we report on his start up and experiences with the new crop and how he kept it organic for his hospital buyers

15/08/2025

Frederick Ng’ang’a is now supplying a Nairobi food processor with Cape Gooseberries after buying some of the fruit, drying it, and planting the seeds on his quarter-acre in Kinangop, Nyandarua County.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/farmer-creates-all-the-time-profits-by-getting-seeds-from-dried-cape-gooseberries/ we report how he has turned years of losses growing cabbages into profits from Cape Gooseberries

14/08/2025

It took Thiong’o Gachie a couple of gies to get hibiscus growing on his one acre in Laikipia, but now he has, he has started selling the dried flowers at rates that mean an acre can earn over Sh4m a year.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/farmer-pioneers-hibiscus-as-sh4m-an-acre-crop/ he explains why the crop l, which he us using to make kombucha, is ideal for small farmers and offering help for other farmers wanting to ‘start small’.

14/08/2025

Some of the country’s earliest dragonfruit farmers are now preparing for bigger price drops by investing in value addition to make juices and powders. They aim to maintain their earnings at Sh1,000 per kg as prices tumble.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/dragonfruit-leaders-brace-for-price-falls-by-investing-in-value-addition/ we report on current prices, running at now half their 2022 levels, and the explosion ahead in dragonfruit production.

13/08/2025

Blossom end rot ruined most of Duncan Karanja’s first tomato season in Nakuru. but changing his watering, mulching his ground, and making sure his tomatoes got enough calcium ended the problem.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/nakuru-farmer-learns-from-losses-to-cure-blossom-end-rot/ we give Duncan’s whole tomato care routine, which turned him from losses to profits.

12/08/2025

Brahma farmers in Kiambu and Mombasa report earnings per chicken up to 15x larger than Kienyeji, and egg sales at Sh500 per egg compared with Sh20 - with Michael in Kiambu earning Sh1/4m a year from just 5 chicken.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/brahma-king-of-chicken-earns-up-to-7x-kienyeji/ we report on the high earning poultry farmers, and how one farmer has gone from 4 chickens to income of Sh21m a year.

30/07/2025

See our selection of the latest job openings in agriculture, from programme manager and agronomist to the plant head for a fruit drying plant, as vacancies closing for applications from late July to mid-August on https://farmbizafrica.com/roundup-agriculture-jobs-in-kenya-29th-july-2025/

25/07/2025

Jamleck Mang’enyi from Chemolingot, Baringo said he was earning up to Sh40,000 a month until recently, selling 50kg of aloe sap at Sh800 per kilo. But since the Kenya Wildlife Service enforcement ramped up, his monthly income has fallen to Sh25,000.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/farmers-abandoning-aloe-on-kws-raids-and-no-legal-supplies/ we report on the aloe-growing penalties, and the KWS failings that have denied farmers a legitimate industry under rules meant to preserve the wild plant

25/07/2025

KEFRI is supplying legal Mukombera seeds with training in value addition, in a drive to promote cultivation of the endangered vines, which they report can earn farmers Sh1/4m per 1/4 acre from harvested roots after 3 years.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/kefri-equips-farmers-to-make-sh250k-a-year-from-1-4-acre-of-mondia/ we report on how to start and the help available with marketing for farmers moving into legal Mukombera, which requires no licence.

24/07/2025

Kenya’s maize production is falling despite good rains, as its repeated hottest years on record drive up insects, viruses and plant diseases just as their key pesticides are banned, says Anthony Kioko, the CEO of the Cereal Growers’ Association.

On https://farmbizafrica.com/heat-and-bans-are-driving-up-maize-pest-destruction/ he explains why the Fall Armyworm is now re surging and the bundle of changes that are now creating maize shortages.

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