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Western farmers grow income intercropping sugarcane with vegetables

Vanguard farmers in Western Kenya are now reaping the benefits of growing sugar cane with indigenous vegetables, with the vegetables insulating them from the erratic cane market while increasing fertility in their soils. The indigenous vegetables were a favourite among farmers in especially Mumias and Bungoma area in the 60's occupying on average three quarter of household's crop production.

Organic deposit at lake Naivasha could serve Kenya's fertilizer needs for 200 years

Organic deposits sitting on the bed of Lake Naivasha and other fresh water lakes in Kenya could be the solution to Kenya's fertilizer shortage war, with the deposits fertilizing the soils twice as much as convetional fertilizers and capable of being applied in all soil types for over 200 years without running out.

Farmers brace for videos to learn new farming techniques

Kenyan farmers will soon be taught farming and other farm management practices through locally translated videos as a global not for profit organization, Access Agriculture, recently expressed interest in training Kenyan farmers, in what it called African breadbasket which needed to modernize farming to increase yields.

New potato variety sets to grow yield and exports

The Kenyan government is set to import a high yielding disease resistant potato variety from Netherlands which will assist the over 800,000 farmers expand their market as hotels and processors shun local varieties due to their poor quality.

Mums can now connect with there babies in intensive care through ipads

The Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles has launched a new scheme dubbed “Baby Time”, with the aim to enable hospitalized mums to check on and interact with their newborns in intensive care, of which, could reduce incidents of disappearing babies in hospitals.

Western farmers grow income intercropping sugarcane with vegetables

Organic deposit at lake Naivasha could serve Kenya's fertilizer needs for 200 years

Farmers brace for videos to learn new farming techniques

New potato variety sets to grow yield and exports

Mums can now connect with there babies in intensive care through ipads

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