The COP26 conference in Glasgow, UK is currently ongoing, world leaders, national delegates, climate warriors, activists, interested partners, and other interest groups such as the youth are meeting to see a way forward in regard to climate change and deliver on the Paris Agreement. At the summit we’ve heard the voices of many, some sharing […]
Let me tell you a story about my experience with cassavas, undoubtedly one of the most underrated crop in Kenya. I grew up in Busia which is one of the counties where cassavas is largely grown and I can say with no fear of contradiction that this crop raised me and my siblings. Today as
Do you know what my neighbors call me nowadays? The Weather Man. They call me that not because I’m a meteorologist by profession or anything but because I sometimes inform them about the weather, the atmospheric conditions of our region so they can make their farm plans. I’m a young farmer, savvy and our kind
Well, we all know how soya has become one of the most grown crop recently, thanks to livestock farmers. Soya is one of the main ingredients in most commercial animal feeds hence a crucial crop in the agricultural sector and one of the reasons most farmers are growing it. Of course the other reasons being
If you are following Money in Agribusiness on Twitter, then you might have seen one of my tweets about my plight with my rabbits only four days after sharing the exciting video of me helping the kindlings suckle the doe after parturition. Early in the morning, four days after parturition I went to check on
In the events of the untimely death of a lactating sow, any farmer would be devastated and most, especially first-time pig farmers would be left confused and not knowing what to do. After farrowing down of a sow, we all count on the mother to naturally breastfeed the litter first with colostrum and then with
This is exactly what one pig farmer revealed to me as I sweet-talked her trying to get a pig feeding formula out of her. Well, this is what I’ve been upto since the beginning of February, immediately I finished putting up a pig house. I’ve been going around my area talking to farmers trying to
Sometimes I get pissed at farmers in this region for not taking dairy farming as serious as farmers in other regions in this country. And I don’t know whether to think of it merely as carelessness or ignorance. Why don’t our farmers understand that things have changed, and we are no longer in our grandparents
About eight months ago, June 14th on Sunday finalized on my business plan from back in Nairobi, having done a comprehensive analysis of every project on the plan I proudly referred (still do) to as “blueprint”. The blueprint was divided into feasible phases: The first phase was of course short season crop farming. This was
