Agri-wallet is an innovative fintech solution for farmers in Kenya. It uses blockchain technology and provides a business account for farmers, buyers and suppliers. They can use these to save, buy, earn or pay for farm inputs or farm commodities
KAOP is a free weather forecasting app by KALRO.
It predicts rainfall, temperature and wind patterns for any location in Kenya. Besides it has quality agronomic advise for crop and livestock farmers.
Use your motorbike to pump water efficiently and cheaply. This smart innovation from Kenya is cheaper to buy and use than the traditional diesel and petrol pumps. Besides a boda boda, you can attach the motorcycle powered water pump to tuk-tuk or a micro cultivator.
A list of the best fodder crops- grass and legumes s you should grow and feed your livestock for highest milk and meat yields. They include Lucerne, corn
Milk farmers and dairy cooperatives can now reduce milk losses while on transit. The mobile solar-powered milk chiller is mounted on a motorbike. It will help you in quality control, traceability, and better profits.
Contract farming is a simple way to improve your farme profits. It works by bypassing brokers and thus unlocking better prices and your access to farm inputs, credit and market information on time.
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
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.
In this article, we discuss biological control and other safe methods to control schistocerca gregaria invasion. These include; use of neem oil, metarhizium bio-pesticide and natural predators such as chicken. other measures are planting trees and cover crops, making locust traps and harvesting them for human and livestock consumption.
Desert locusts invasion in the East African region provides many opportunities. The Schistocerca gregaria is a source of nutritious human food and a raw material for safe animal feeds.