Based on our findings, the study suggests the need for the Government to promote the development of agricultural policy that supports the shift from non-diversification to crop diversification through developing guaranteed access to inputs and subsidies on farming input resources with priority given to...
"It is the first time I am seeing it since I started farming coffee 10 years ago. We have been asked to use certain chemicals to save the crop," said Moses Karanja, a coffee farmer. The disease, according to farmers in central Kenya, was prevalent in other areas including Nakuru and ...
NAKURU, Kenya, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's Samwel Kamundai has found an innovative way to buffer against hunger, malnutrition and poverty and it involves intensive crop diversification in his three acre farm. The small-scale farmer in Kenya's Nakuru county had until 2013 been practicing mono...
Digitalisation for sustainable farming Crops inside these greenhouses include tomatoes, basil, rosemary and sage that are consumed in Europe and elsewhere. The company has already built 1,500 units in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Fed by solar power, they use drip irrigation technology ...
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Agriculture contributes the most to the economy and provides agro-ecological benefits in the environmentally unsustainable Aral Sea region, but its productivity is steadily dropping. To improve the resilience of farming communities in the region, crop di
Barley farming in Kenya is setting new yield records as witnessed in various barley trials conducted in Timau, Meru County. Trials are a huge part of making progress in farming, and back in September 2018 we harvested something truly special. A plot of barley – 10 metres long by 2 metres...
This study was commissioned by DFID to investigate the factors influencing adoption and uptake of outputs of crop protection research in Kenya focusing on peri-urban vegetable production systems. Study findings indicate that peri-urban vegetable farming in Kenya is guided largely by market demand. The...
Hashmiu, I., Agbenyega, O., & Dawoe, E. (2022b). Determinants of crop choice decisions under risk: a case study on the revival of cocoa farming in the forest-savannah transition zone of Ghana.Land Use Policy,114.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105958 ...
Maize is the principal food and cash crop for millions of people in the predominantly mixed crop-livestock farming systems in Kenya. Stemborers and striga ... Z.R. Khan,J.A. Plckett - 《International Journal of Tropical Insect Science》 被引量: 268发表: 2001年 Crop–animal interactions in...