Understand how to budget and estimate your farming income and expenses to allocate funds for inputs, labor, loan repayments for quality animal and crop production.
Use the Gross Margin analysis (GMA) results for tips, guides and ideas to reduce costs, and increase sales to make extra profits. Finally, learn which farm records to keep per crop or aimal reared for future decision making.
Kenya Census 2019 Results: What are latest facts about agriculture and food in Kenya Explore the data trends on human and livestock populations, crop farming, irrigation and urban farming.
Learn tips of saving money from high price volatilities for fresh agricultural products such as tomatoes, milk or maize whether you are a consumer, food trader or a farmer.
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.
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; First, urban farming is a complex system with various inputs and outputs. The inputs include…
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 do it on a sprawling backyard, balcony or just a sunny windowsill. Honestly, to enjoy…
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 Asia its treated as a neglected survival mechanism for the urban poor populations. In this…
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 in towns according to the 2019 census results by KNBS. Between the years 2030–2040, the…
Creating market linkages is not about going to physical market structures. It involves creating strong networks between producers and consumers.
Are you looking on ways to solve climate change risks such as floods and droughts and make money while at it? You can promote climate smart agriculture (CSA) to mitigate farmers incomes and yields despite facing droughts and flooding. Climate smart agriculture methods include irrigation, growing animal fodder and agroforestry among others. Each of these…