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Agriculture
How improved cassava is transforming food security in Homa Bay
At 28, many young men are seeking for jobs in urban areas.
But this is not the case for Kevine Ouma Otieno.
The resident of West...
Local farmers in Kenya display potential of groundwater use for irrigation
Fifteen years ago, Mathews Chepkwony relied on a seasonal stream to support his vegetable farming in Chesamoo village, Bungoma County, at the foot of...
Reprieve to Ahero rice farmers as government begins to kill invasive birds
The invasion by Quelea Birds into Ahero and West Kano Irrigation schemes rice farms has been giving the farmers sleepless nights.
This bird eats up...
Huge losses as 5.8 million birds invade Kisumu rice farms
The government has launched an aerial spraying in Ahero and West Kano irrigation schemes in a bid to control quelea birds invasion that has...
West Kano farmers stare at loses as birds invade rice farms
It is 3.00pm in Nyang’ande, men and women are shouting and whistling in the 2230-acre West Kano Irrigation Scheme.
A swam of birds perch from...
‘How I find satisfaction in keeping birds I can’t eat’
"Why keep birds that you can’t eat?"
This is a question Paul Obuya encounters quite often.
Obuya rears ornamental birds.
It started as a hobby in 2018,...