This is the password for maize production in Kenya. Lets talk babycorn. I have grown babycorn for years above numbers and these are my facts. 1. Spacing 15 cm from seed to seed and 75 cm between the rows on a bed... Read More
How can we address the perennial food insecurity in Kenya? In my view, food security would be addressed adequately if over 80% of the rural households were able to meet their annual food requirements with food produced from the family shamba. What... Read More
Previously, I wrote about how farmers should avoid setting low production targets as a way of shielding themselves against disappointments that would occur as a result of failing to achieve the set high targets. Instead, farmers should be prepared to face such... Read More
Kenya has a total population of 47,615,739 people (Index Mundi, 2014). As at the end of March 2019 1,111,500 people were food insecure according to statistics carried out by the Catholic Church. The most affected are 12 counties that is, Turkana, Baringo,... Read More
I wish to draw the attention of our leaders to a five-member family budget whose breadwinner is earning ksh. 300 as the daily wage. The total cash required by such a family to survive on basic needs alone is ksh. 566 per... Read More
My main goal in farming this year is go into precision farming where everything is meticulously done. Where spacing isn’t assumed but measured to precision. The game plan is to define how to grow everything on a 1m2 then replicated into the... Read More