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Avocado farmers in Kakamega county have launched a cooperative society to guide them on the best farming practices of the produce and in preparation for the county government rollout of a World Bank project aimed at promoting avocado farming in the county. Speaking during their first AGM, Mumbo Avocado Farmers’ Cooperative Society Chairman Maxwell Shamala…
Bungoma county leaders have urged the youth in the region to embrace hass avocado farming as an alternative source of income. Speaking during the official opening of Sisi Village produce demonstration centre for hass avocado and bee keeping projects in Kanduyi constituency, area MP John Makali and his Bumula counterpart Jack Wamboka urged locals to…
Bungoma county leaders have urged the youth in the region to embrace hass avocado farming as an alternative source of income. Speaking during the official opening of Sisi Village produce demonstration centre for hass avocado and bee keeping projects in Kanduyi constituency, area MP John Makali and his Bumula counterpart Jack Wamboka urged locals to…
The United Kingdom (UK) has rolled out a programme to train avocado farmers in cooperative societies on how to improve avocado farming and increase their earnings. The programme will be rolled out by the UK’s Urban Economic Development programme in collaboration with Kisii County Government. Speaking at Agricultural Training Centre during the launch of a…
By Ken Langat In bid to ward off unscrupulous cartels that have permeated Avocado industry and made themselves a bargaining chip, farmers from Kericho have formed a cooperative society. Kericho Avocado Farmer Cooperative Society was presented to the registrar of companies last year by the farmers as an umbrella body to collectively market their produce…
By John Majau Avocado farmers across the country have been urged to harvest mature fruits in order to boost the product’s international market. Addressing farmers at Kaguru in Imenti South, the Avocado Society of Kenya CEO Earnest Muthomi said the Kenyan avocado market has greatly been affected by low quality produce caused by premature harvest….
