Star apple farming in Kenya offers a fresh opportunity for fruit growers looking for profitable and underexploited crops. The fruit, known scientifically as Chrysophyllum cainito and commonly called caimito, grows well in Kenya’s warm tropical and subtropical regions. It belongs to the Sapotaceae family, the same group that includes sapodilla…
Farmers Trend Online Virtual Agrovet: A New Era of Agrovet Business in Kenya
Farmers Trend Online Virtual Agrovet is an online multivendor ecommerce agrovet website that connects farmers with agrovet vendors. It is a new and innovative platform that is revolutionizing the way agrovet business is conducted in Kenya. In recent years, the agricultural sector has witnessed a significant transformation, largely driven by…
Are you a farmer looking to market your produce?
“Dear members, I harvested my tomatoes and I need someone to buy them ….” This is a common message on most agriculture-oriented Facebook groups in Kenya . A day hardly passes by without such a post. Farmers Trend have come up with a tool that seeks to connecting this farmers…
AMAZING steps to follow in starting a SERIOUS nursery
If you have a green thumb, some space, a source of water, and a ton of ambition, you may want to try your hand at operating a plant nursery. This is not a guide to growing plants, as much as starting a business, since plant growing varies considerably from one…
Digital farmer excels in tree tomato project
John Kiruthi is the founder of agricultural information portal Farmers Trend. However, he also indulges himself in farming, whereby he grows tree tomato and also sells tree tomato seedlings. “I mainly concentrate on raising tree tomato seedlings in Nyeri and Limuru. I’ve managed to propagate more than 40,000 grafted tree…