This blog tag promotes agriculture as a business venture to make economic profit by the farmer. The tips, guides and ideas help you to transform from subsistence farming to an agribusinesses whose aims are reducing costs, value addition and increasing sales to make extra profits. other areas are record keeping, professional management etc.
How can grain farmers, traders and consumers reduce food losses to pests and bad weather? Explore 3 cheap ideas. These are hermetic bags, airtight containers, metallic and plastic hermetic silos. You will also limit the use of toxic pesticides and preservatives
Is Kale farming in Kenya profitable? In this post, we will use a simple cost and benefit analysis to estimate the money you make as well as the costs, sales and profits of farming sukuma wiki vegetable. The post assumes one acre under open-field and rain fed kale farming. “Sukuma wiki” as kales are commonly…
Kenya Census 2019 Results: What are latest facts about agriculture and food in Kenya Explore the data trends on human and livestock populations, crop farming, irrigation and urban farming.
Learn tips of saving money from high price volatilities for fresh agricultural products such as tomatoes, milk or maize whether you are a consumer, food trader or a farmer.
How can a farmer make extra money? By practicing agribusiness; this is professionally treating agriculture as a commercial venture beyond growing crops and raising animals. Mitigate risks and diversify operations for sustainability and survival.
In addition to growing crops and rearing animals profitably, this article outlines 10 business ideas in urban farming. The ideas are fit individual, group or company investors. To explore them, we will make two assumptions about the urban agriculture sector; First, urban farming is a complex system with various inputs and outputs. The inputs include…
Are you searching for the secrets of running a thriving kitchen garden? Your dream of that lush garden brimming with vibrant vegetables, fragrant herbs, and juicy fruits is a true dream for millions of urban farmers like you. You can do it on a sprawling backyard, balcony or just a sunny windowsill. Honestly, to enjoy…
Urban farming has many social, economic and health benefits. Unfortunately, it faces many challenges that limit its full production and marketing potential. As a result, its not priority area in urban and city planning. In many countries in Africa and Asia its treated as a neglected survival mechanism for the urban poor populations. In this…
This post focusses on what is urban farming and types of urban agriculture like vertical and zero-acreage farming to show how you can do it as an individual or a group. 30.8 per cent (14.7 million people) of Kenyans live in towns according to the 2019 census results by KNBS. Between the years 2030–2040, the…
Creating market linkages is not about going to physical market structures. It involves creating strong networks between producers and consumers.
