How to Keep Farm Records Better

Do you know that Spending just 15 minutes a day updating your farm records can improve your agribusiness profits? To run a profitable business, keep and use its records. It is a must for all the agribusinesses like farming, input shops and traders like a cafeteria, cooperatives and transporters. In this free guide, we will…

Which are The Best Softwood and Hardwood Trees in Kenya?

Imagine this: Five years from now, you’re standing in the middle of your thriving tree farm. The fast growing timber trees you plant today can be towering giants, ready for harvest, and buyers are lining up. Timber trees are fast-growing and can be harvested for their wood, bark, and leaves. Their high biomass makes them…

How to Make and Use a Farm Budget

Do you want to know how much money you will make from your farming business? In this post, we give you a simple farm profits calculator using the cost benefit analysis formula or method. You can do it for the entire farming project or a specific crop or livestock.

Is spinach farming in Kenya really profitable?

In this profit analysis, we determine the expected income for spinach farming in Kenya. We use the gross margin analysis method to get total revenues from an average price per Kilogram and total yields per acre. We deduct all costs of production such as the cost of farm inputs and labor to determine the gross…

How can you make more farmers profits in Kenya?

Agriculture marketing is the key challenge for smallholder farmers in Kenya  As a result, farmers profits are low while the post-harvest food losses are high. Farmers lack access to markets, buyers, demand and prices. Their investments in transport and processing are low. They act individually, limiting their bargaining power and influence in the market. They end up relying on…

How much money do kale farmers make in Kenya?

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…