Rice farmers. Yobe Okello and Patrick are not wasting the crops’ by-products. Rather than throw away the rice by-products, the farmers have invented a new technology to reduce waste, recycle and reuse the rice wastes.…

Researchers say they are making rice farming in East Africa more sustainable by promoting the adoption of innovations such as recycled crop by-products, improving food security in the region.

At Pap Onditi Shopping Center Nyakach, Kisumu County, 45-year-old Benta Akinyi is carrying a heap of load on her head that looks light in weight. It looks like unpacked grass for animal feeds but moving…

A security guard opens the heavy metal gate to allow in a three-wheeler (tuktuk) at the premises located a short distance from the Kisumu-Nairobi Road in Nyamware, Kisumu County. The three-wheeler is loaded with a…

A middle-aged woman who is an amaranth farmer from Ringa Kakelo in Homa Bay looks jovial as she harvests the crop’s grains at her four acres farm. She has all the reasons to smile because…

When Bernard Omondi started rice farming, he thought straws will help him in mulching and improve soil fertility. He was wrong. https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/farmkenya/amp/crop/article/2001423474/rice-farmers-turn-husks-into-fortune

A few years ago, Alvin Nyaga, 29, used to ride a boda boda, a popular public motorcycle transport service in rural and urban Kenya, but quit riding along with some of his youthful colleagues to…