Top Farmer Magazine

03/12/2018

Muguku never stole from anyone, and his family became rich. Just invested wisely in his poultry business, one chick at at a time

The family of late Kenyan billionaire poultry farmer Nelson Muguku has opened the upmarket Sh3 billion (USD 30 million) Karen Waterfront shopping complex with South Africa’s retail giant, Game, as the anchor tenant. David Muguku, son of the late Muguku, told a Kenyan daily that the 200,000 square ...

22/11/2018

Hallo chicken farmers

A gang operating in Bondo town on Wednesday night broke into the home of East African Legislative Assembly MP Oburu Oginga and stole more than a thousand chickens in the poultry yard. As a poultry farmer, dont end up like Oburu Odinga. “The insecurity situation in Bondo town has soared to high lev...

11/11/2018

Should Maina Kageni apologise to the farmers?

They used Maina Kageni to lure farmers into the plains of Kajiado. Now Hundreds of local Investors are crying foul over their unpaid money owed to them by a local agribusiness venture, Diamond Property Merchants. The project at the center stage is Bethany phase 3 that sits on a vast land in Kajiado....

07/11/2018

Who is behind this scandal?

Police in Uganda are hunting for four Chinese men who are reportedly making and selling fake eggs that look like chicken eggs. The New Vision reports that the unscrupulous entrepreneurs no longer wait for a hen to lay eggs, but were making fake eggs using machines and chemicals. “The fake eggs are...

03/11/2018

Who is selling fake eggs in Uganda? http://topfarmer.co.ke/who-is-selling-fake-eggs-in-uganda/

25/10/2018

We can follow the footsteps of this man. Read, be inspired.

Kevin Green sacrificed nights out and alcohol to start his farm business – he was once homeless, would beg for leftover chips from lorry drivers and sleeping rough in the woods. He then became a farmer and now he’s a millionaire When did you start farming? In 1987 and I still have the same farm....

21/10/2018

GM Cotton for Kenya. What are the effects?

http://topfarmer.co.ke/kenya-to-explore-growing-of-genetically-modified-bt-cotton/

14/10/2018

More details on new fund for African farmers.

(Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A new United Nations-led multi-million dollar investment fund is targeting young farmers and agribusiness owners, whose struggle to access loans threatens food production and global goals to end hunger, particularly in Africa. The Agribusiness Capital (ABC) Fund will...

01/09/2018

Making money online

(Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When two university students knocked on the door of Lillian Kanari’s organic food shop five years ago seeking work, she realised their web design skills could help her business solve one of its most intractable problems: food waste. Until then, most orders were pla...

30/08/2018

First victims eaten,.....

The arrest of Agriculture PS Richard Lesiyampe, former NCPB Managing Director Newton Terer and Former General Manager of Finance Cornel Kiprotich over the loss of money meant to pay farmers is the first signal that NCPB will not continue to be the playground of maize barons. The officials were arres...

29/08/2018

What a story, what a rise from ashes of ruin

Erisa Kakyomya Apuuli is a household name in Toro sub-region. He is the proprietor of Rusekere Tea Growers Factory in Kabarole, a $3m project that buys tea leaves from 800 out-growers, employs 450 tea pluckers and 300 staff. Kakyomya has invested in real estate and owns about a quarter of all the co...

28/08/2018

You still can make it....

When Peter Kimani relocated from Kandara in Murang’a county to Mwea in Kirinyaga county in the year 2000, his aim was to continue with his education and later on go back home. This was never meant to be as 17 years later, Kimani, 27, is one of the successful farmers in Mwea. He grows watermelons,....