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Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Agriculture

Kenya Moves to Commercialise Genetically Modified Cassava

The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) has invited public comments on a proposal by the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) to commercialise genetically modified (GM) cassava across 18 counties. According to [...]

Fred Obura

15 days ago

Credit to Farmers Slumps Despite Lower Overall Lending Rates

Kenya’s agricultural sector is showing fresh signs of strain as access to farm credit tightens and production costs remain high, even as the broader economy grapples with global policy shifts [...]

Fred Obura

15 days ago

Kenya Prepares for Historic Global Online Coffee Auction

Kenya’s coffee auction volumes plunged sharply even as prices rose, new data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows, setting the stage for a radical overhaul of how the [...]

Fred Obura

25 days ago

GMO Crop Rollout Delays is Costing Kenya, Study Warns

Kenyan farmers are losing billions of shillings every year due to delays in adopting genetically modified (GMO) crops that promise higher yields, lower pesticide use, and stronger resilience to pests [...]

Fred Obura

a month ago

Kenya’s Tea Output Drops 11% in 2025 as Prices and Key Exports Falter

Kenya’s tea production dropped 11.5% in the first seven months of 2025 to 322.29 million kilograms, down from 364.13 million kilograms a year earlier, according to the Tea Board of [...]

Harry Njuguna

a month ago

Kenya is Wasting 40% Of Its Harvest Even as Hunger Bites, WRI Warns

At dawn in Makueni, you can smell the paradox before you see it. Mangoes, split and overripe, carpet the red earth beneath their trees. Acres of yellow sweetness fermenting in [...]

Brian Nzomo

a month ago

Agriculture, Water Dominate August KSh 13.8Bn Development Spending

The National Treasury disbursed KSh 13.84 billion in development funds by the end of August 2025, representing 3.4% of the KSh 407.1 billion development budget for the financial year 2025/26. [...]

Harry Njuguna

a month ago

Kenya's Tea Output Slumps 12% as Dry Weather Bites

Kenya’s tea production fell sharply in the first half of 2025, dropping 12.39% to 283.25 million kilograms from 323.30 million kilograms in the same period in 2024, according to the [...]

Harry Njuguna

2 months ago

Kenya’s Mid-Year Harvests Have Slowed Hunger, Yet 2.1 Million Kenyans Could Face Crisis by January

1.8 million Kenyans faced acute food insecurity between July and September 2025, and a below-average October–December rain forecast could exacerbate the figure to 2.1 million by January next year, an [...]

Brian Nzomo

2 months ago

Aavishkaar Capital's US$250 mn Fund Backs Horizon Group Africa to Scale Operations

Aavishkaar Capital, a company of Aavishkaar Group, has announced its fourth investment in Africa in collaboration with KfW, the German state-owned investment and development bank, into spice processor Horizon Group [...]

Staff Reporter

2 months ago

Kenya Milk Intake on Track to Cross Record 1 Billion Litres in 2025

Kenya’s formal milk intakes surged to 522.6 million litres in the first half of 2025, up 19% year-on-year from 438.9 million litres in H1 2024, staying on track ross 1 [...]

Harry Njuguna

2 months ago

Sugar Production Falls 16% in the First Half of 2025

Kenya’s sugar industry has come under renewed pressure in 2025, with official data showing a 15.8% drop decline in domestic sugar production from 384,356 tonnes in the first six months [...]

Harry Njuguna

2 months ago

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