The Rural Youth Employment Support (R -YES) project has embarked on tackling youth unemployment in Rwanda through making agribusiness the gateway for youth jobs.
According to the Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2020 by the National…
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
Many young people know little of the opportunities and dynamism possible in farming today, a reason why majority of them are not attracted to the sector. Informed by the above fact, the International Fund for…
Kyela Rice Processors Ltd (KRPL) is a private company dealing with paddy milling and rice trading based in Kikusya village, Itope ward, Kyela in the Mbeya region of Tanzania.Â
The company is implementing the Competitive…
Kilimo Trust as the lead together with Rikolto implemented the Iringa-Mitigation, Adaptation, Productivity for Climate-Smart Agriculture (iMAP4CSA) project in the Idodi and Pawaga schemes in Tanzania, with funding from the Belgian development agency, Enabel.
The…
A total of 89 Rice farmers in Mapogoro (60 farmers) and Tungamalenga (29farmers) rice schemes in Idodi ward Iringa District benefited from loan of amounting to 197 million Tsh (84,950USD) accessed from CRDB bank after…
Batian Nuts Ltd, a local agro-processing company, has partnered with Egerton University, Kilimo Trust and the largest incubator for inclusive agri-business in Africa, 2SCALE to support farmers growing groundnuts in Tharaka Nithi County and Meru…