Edamame Beans – Celebrity Crop for Everyone! The vegetable soybean (Edamame) is superior in protein yield per unit area to any other agricultural product and has been central to the predominantly vegetarian diet of East Asian countries for more than 5000 years. The earliest written record on this “Mu Ku” or sacred grain of China, […]
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Mr. Stevia: The Sweet Success of a Kenyan Farmer Stevia is a sturdy green plant whose leaves contain a unique source of natural sweetness (Photo Credit: Cherotich Kenei) Stevia is a sturdy green plant whose leaves contain a unique source of natural sweetness. It’s grown all over the world, and is fast becoming one of […]
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Moringa – An Amazing Tree of Life The Moringa tree is one of the most incredible plants ever encountered. This may sound sensationalist, but Moringa’s nutritional and medicinal properties have the potential to end malnutrition, starvation, as well as prevent and heal many diseases and maladies worldwide. Moringa is truly a miracle plant, and a […]
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Sesame Farming Benefits BY Tanja Folnovic VALUABLE CROP Sesame is one of the oldest oilseed crop known to mankind for its seeds. The main reason for their popularity is that they have many health-promoting nutrients and elements. The world produces about 3 million tons of sesame seeds every year. Myanmar, India, China, Sudan, and Tanzania […]
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Farming Ginger For Profit By Louise Brodie Propagation Propagation of ginger is from planting out the rhizomes kept from your previous harvest. Rhizomes for planting can also be bought from suppliers or nurseries. Planting Method The ginger rhizome is broken into smaller pieces and these are used as plant material. The pieces […]
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Basic Skills for Successful Garlic Farming Growing garlic is an incredibly rewarding experience, but it can also be frustrating. Garlic is a high-value horticultural crop in the onion family. Farmers are getting interested in growing garlic due to its reported high returns and the readily available local market. But wait, have you considered […]
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Kenya: Barley Growing Makes Hundreds of Farmers a Happy Lot Mau Narok in Nakuru County can best be described as a fertile swathe of land where all kinds of crops thrive – from carrots, potatoes and cabbages to tomatoes and onions. While the crops dominate most small farms, barley growing has also taken […]
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Leslie Ter Morshuizen on Mistakes made by new Fish Farmers There are certain errors that are commonly made by new entrants into the aquaculture industry and I thought it would be useful to highlight these, as a guide to new entrants so that they can avoid these errors, and to remind more experienced farmers […]
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The Marula – Africa’s ‘Treasure Tree’ A source of human nutrition in Africa for over 12,000 years, marula fruit is now famous as the source of one of South Africa’s most successful exports, a liqueur known as “Amarula Cream”. But the range of Marula products is increasing and during the last four years, […]
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Rwandan farmers’ cooperative commission maize milling factory to boost value addition RWANDA – Rwanda’s Cooperative Twihangire Umurimo (COTUMU), loosely translated as ‘Create jobs for ourselves’ has launched a Rwf125 million (US$133,000) maize milling plant to address the challenge of post-harvest losses by adding value to their produce. The 1,122 members of COTUMU raised Rwf85million […]
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