Dr. Robert Musyoki, Director of Seeds at the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) says the Kilimo Biashara Expo is a demand-driven initiative, born out of farmers’ requests ...

While agriculture is the economic activity that contributes the most to Kenya's GDP, a majority of Kenyans have yet to embrace mechanisation. There is also almost zero use of irrigation, with a ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A large mushroom farm near the Kenyan capital of Nairobi is one of a kind: It grows fungi on an industrial scale — not as food for restaurants but as a building material that ...

Scientists in Kenya are using nuclear science to help farmers modernize their planting practices amid changing climate patterns. “Kenya, like many African countries, is struggling to grow the crops it ...

On the outskirts of the coastal Kenyan city of Mombasa, a women’s organization in Jomvu Creek aims to transform livelihoods and the environment through mud crab farming. A blue economy grant is ...

STORY HIGHLIGHTS The Horn of Africa has the largest concentration of livestock keepers in the world, as many as 7 million of them in Kenya. World Bank funding is fostering private sector opportunities ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — When Benson Wanjala started farming in his western Kenya village two and a half decades ago, his 10-acre farm could produce a bountiful harvest of 200 bags of maize. That has dwindled ...

As the region faces unprecedented flooding, farmers are struggling to make ends meet. Every year, it’s typical in East Africa for the autumn to come with a short rainy season from October to December.

NAIROBI, July 7 (Reuters) - Kenya will change the rules governing tea farming to streamline administration and boost production and earnings, its agriculture minister said. Sign up here. Despite the ...