Kenya Sugar Board unveils new guidelines to boost sugar industry production and efficiency

The Kenya Sugar Board has launched guidelines which will be used by farmers and other industry players moving forward. The document known as Kenya Sugar Industry Growers Guide enumerates how farmers will go about their activities in order to ramp up production. It comes barley a month after President William Ruto assented the Sugar Bill…

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Coffee

Government seeks to boost local coffee consumption amid declining production

The Kenyan government is making bold moves to increase local coffee consumption to boost revenues, even as the country grapples with a drop in production. During the launch of its strategic plan yesterday, the New Kenya Planters Cooperative Union (KPCU) revealed that domestic coffee consumption remains worryingly low at just 19 percent. To address this,…

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Nyeri governor launches Youth in Agriculture Programme

The Council of Governors (CoG) Vice Chair and Nyeri Governor, H.E. Mutahi Kahiga, has launched the Tupande Youth in Agriculture Program in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation and CoG. The initiative, unveiled at White Rhino Hotel in Nyeri, aims to inspire youth to pursue agriculture-based careers, enhancing agricultural productivity in Kenya. The program, implemented under…

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Some of the Zone 7 tea directors from Meru and Tharaka Nithi counties during the presser

Tea directors tell Agriculture PS to keep off tea factories

Tea directors from Meru and Tharaka Nithi counties have told the  Agriculture Principal Secretary Paul Rono to keep off and stop meddling with tea factories issues because the government has no powers to interfere with private entities. The directors challenged the authority of Agriculture PS following his recent directives regarding the troubled Miciimikuru Factory. During an…

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Kenya Seed Company director Sammy Chepsiror

Kenya Seed Company admits there is a shortage of maize seeds in the country

Kenya Seed Company has admitted that indeed there was a shortage of maize seed  in the country. The company director Sammy Chepsiror informed the National Assembly Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, which is probing the causes of shortage and increase in maize seeds prices that the shortage was as a result of general increase in…

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Kenya’s Jude Chesire Elected Vice Chairman of International Sugar Organization

The acting chief executive officer of the Kenya Sugar Board Mr. Jude Chesire has been elected the vice chairman of the International Sugar Organization (ISO). The elections took place during a council meeting held at November 29, 2024, at I Canada Square in Canary Wharf London. Mr Edgar Herrera the executive director of LAICA of…

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Politician cum philanthropist Earnest Kimaita

Meru residents urged to embrace goat farming for economic prosperity and stability

Meru residents have been urged to fully embrace goat farming for economic prosperity and stability. A politician cum philanthropist Mr. Earnest Kimaita Mkulima said goat farming is very profitable and rewarding to those who  embrace it. Speaking at Kaguma market in Mwangathia ward in Central Imenti  constituency,  Meru county, Mkulima said goat milk is currently…

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Director of KOPIA Dr Ji Gang Kim speaking during a presser at Katheri market in Central Imenti constituency in Meru county.

KOPIA boosts potato farming in Meru with training and modern village projects

Potato farmers in Meru are set to benefit from Korea through the Korea Partnership for Innovation of Agriculture (KOPIA). Dr Ji Gang Kim, director of Korea Partnership for Innovation of Agriculture (KOPIA), said they are carrying out modern village projects in Meru County. “We are holding training on cultivation and post-harvest management within Meru County….

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Agriculture PS orders investigations into Micii Mikuru Tea Factory

Agriculture Principal Secretary Dr. Paul Kiprono Rono has ordered investigations into suspected fraud and registration of suspicious companies in the name of Micii Mikuru Tea Factory in Meru County. This follows claims of concerns of misappropriation of funds by the management. This follows protests by farmers after the management declared a bonus payout of Sh….

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Lugari Mp Nabii Nabwera pose for a photo with officials of Lugari coffee sacoo.

Lugari MP pledges to boost coffee productivity and support local farmers

Member of Parliament for Lugari, Nabii Nabwera , has reaffirmed his dedication to enhancing  coffee  productivity and supporting local farmers. Making his remarks  during a consultative meeting with the Lugari Coffee Farmers Sacco at Nabemo Primary School, Hon. Nabwera outlined initiatives aimed at making coffee farming a more sustainable and lucrative enterprise in the region….

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