Year 2019

Best Agriculture Business Ideas for the youth in Africa

Best ideas for Youth in Agriculture

How can a farmer make extra money? By practicing agribusiness; this is professionally treating agriculture as a commercial venture beyond growing crops and raising animals. Mitigate risks and diversify operations for sustainability and survival.

10 best Agribusiness ideas in urban farming

kitchen gardening in containers

In addition to growing crops and rearing animals profitably, this article outlines 10 business ideas in urban farming. The ideas are fit individual, group or company investors.  To explore them, we will make two assumptions about the urban agriculture sector;…

How to be successful in profitable urban farming

Are you searching for the secrets of running a thriving kitchen garden? Your dream of that lush garden brimming with vibrant vegetables, fragrant herbs, and juicy fruits is a true dream for millions of urban farmers like you. You can…

9 best solutions to the challenges in Urban farming

corn/maize growing in near a town

Urban farming has many social, economic and health benefits. Unfortunately, it faces many challenges that limit its full production and marketing potential. As a result, its not priority area in urban and city planning. In many countries in Africa and…

Why You should Consider Urban Farming in 2024

Urban farming has many benefits to individuals, communities and companies.  As an urbanite, you can grow vegetables and fruits right in boxes placed on your backyard. You can raise small livestock such as goats, rabbits and chicken for meat, milk…

What is Urban Farming? See how easily you can start

Urban agriculture

This post focusses on what is urban farming and types of urban agriculture like vertical and zero-acreage farming to show how you can do it as an individual or a group. 30.8 per cent (14.7 million people) of Kenyans live…

How to make money providing agriculture machines in Kenya

Can the low use of agriculture machines across Africa be a profitable business idea for you? The adoption of mechanization in agriculture can boost farmers’ yields and profits along with time and cost savings. However, poverty makes it economically unfeasible…