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Markets
Omnia sees Africa increasing farm input support amid food security fears
Fertilizer manufacturer Omnia Holding says African governments are increasing support for smallholder farmers amid fears that input costs, driven higher after…
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Crops
Kenya’s growing taste for specialty coffee seen spurring output
Kenyan butcher David Mwangi likes to start his day with a mocha or a cappuccino at a newly opened coffee…
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Business
Traders fail tough test for Uganda maize exports to Kenya
No maize trader has met the new tougher requirements for Kenya’s imports from Uganda that are meant to prevent influx…
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Aquaculture
Kenya fishermen say they are squeezed by Ethiopian mega-dam
Fishermen on the shores of Kenya’s Lake Turkana, the world’s biggest desert lake, have no doubt about what is to…
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Business
World Bank approves record $500 million to battle locust swarms
The World Bank on Thursday approved a record $500 million in grants and low-interest loans to help countries in Africa…
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Economy
Kenya’s herb farmers crushed by virus blow to exports
For many farmers in Kenya, a bout of prolonged rain and flooding, as the East African nation has experienced since…
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Economy
Kenya plans to allow corn imports as supplies set to run out
Kenya may need to import some corn, its main staple food, after about two months when the agriculture ministry projects…
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News
Kenyan farmers battle fruit-fly menace as climate warms
Gideon Gitonga inspected his avocado orchard in central Kenya with military precision, revealing that some of the fruit were tinged…
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