A couple of weeks ago, a very good friend of mine, and a young passionate farmer, Ouma, came to me at my electronic and phone accessories shop for help deciding which new crop he should plant on his one acre farm. I was of course glad to hear another young man interested in pursuing agribusiness […]
Sesame drying structure Bet you didn’t know what the heck was going on in this photograph. That was us harvesting sesame (simsim) the traditional way according to mother’s guidance.
I’m doing this post after coming across these “lazily” planted bananas by a certain farmer in my village. I’m using the term “lazily” because that’s the only way I can think of to describe what the farmer had done. Jane had planted three banana suckers which were visible from the road, and after a heavy
You recall when I was back in Kajiado? Well, I returned with a strange variety of beans, one many of the people I meet have never seen or hard of: Christmas Lima beans. I’ve decided to introduce the Limas to Busia by farming them and teaching more farmers about them because I believe they can
A bumper harvest starts with a proper and timely land preparation. But I wonder how many farmers know this. I’ve taken time to observe what most farmers, especially in the Western part of Kenya do, and to tell you the truth it’s heartbreaking. In Busia County for instance when our rains begun this April signaling
Flowering stage is the most crucial stage in the life cycle of any crop, or plant. When you see those flowers coming up in their variant colors, attracting insects, a farmer’s heart leaps with joy and anticipation. Now you know fruits are about to start forming and that means a yield at the end of
We have been talking about onions on this blog for months now. And if you’ve been traveling this journey with me I’m positive you’ve learned something and grown with me. We started with basics of nursery preparation and management to the farm management: thinning and gapping. It has matured and now it’s time for harvesting.
Thinning and gapping is a routine farm management practice that’s crucial in having a healthy crop that can result in a good yield. Unfortunately most farmers overlook it, especially onion farmers.I don’t know if it’s because of the labour requirements of carrying out these management practice in onions that scares farmers or what. But truth
The previous week I had tackled the topic of how to prepare an onion nursery, step by step. And I had promised to continue next time with the management of the nursery. It’s vital to know how to manage the nursery inorder to have healthy seedlings free of pests and diseases. At the end of
As many people delve into farming as a business to earn a living, more and more of them are becoming interested in onion farming which quite lucrative. And this interest is good if Kenya is to get anything near Tanzania, our neighbors in terms of onion production. Apart from the government’s role which is crucial
