Agriculture

Kenya Breweries Limited (KBL) is seeking to enroll over 5,000 new farmers to grow sorghum for the production of its Senator Keg Lager. The brewer seeks to increase the number …

American rating agency Fitch yesterday released a report upgrading its rating for OCP’s long-term issuer default rating from bb to bb+, reflecting the company’s ability to meet its long-term financial …

Poultry farmers are calling the Government to crackdown on unregulated poultry hatcheries as cases of day-old chick dying rises. The Kenya Poultry Breeders Association (KPBA) is requesting farmers to buy …

Following the port embargo on its fishing vessels, Russia has opted to repair its fishing boats in Casablanca port instead of Las Palmas. The head of the representative office of …

James Maina, a tea farmer in Muranga county in Kenya is a distraught man. Maina has been a farmer since the 1990s, his farm has earned him enough to school …

A total of 406 acres of tobacco farms in Migori County have been transformed alternative crops by tobacco growers. The Tobacco Free Farms Project started in 2021 with 370 acres …

The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) is in the process of starting to facilitate the trading of wheat on its floor. The crop will return to the Exchange’s trading floor after …

Murang’a County will give farmers Sh5 per liter of milk as an incentive meant to increase the county’s production of milk from the current 600,000 liters per day to 1 …

 Incoming Ministry of Agriculture Cabinet Secretary (CS) Franklin Linturi has said prices of maize flour will not go down anytime soon unless the Government re-introduces the subsidy programme. Maize prices …

Morocco’s governing council chaired by Head of Government Aziz Akhannouch, adopted a draft decree to temporarily suspend import duties on domestic cattle on Wednesday October 19. The draft decree seeks …