farming as a business

Is Chicken Farming Profitable in Kenya: BY ZABLON OYUGI: Side hustles can be a make-and-break for many Kenyan workers, as the difference between scrimping and saving, and living a life where bills get paid. For Sela Awino Migaya, an Information Technology expert by profession, rearing chickens...

Most Profitable Chicken Breeds: The following feature was first published in Seeds of Gold magazine. Dressed in a white overcoat, a black trouser, and gumboots, Nicholas Omondi digs his hand in a sack of poultry feeds and offers his birds at his farm in Dunga, Kisumu. The farmer keeps 42...

Kefa Farm sits on 1.5 acres and one can easily pass without noticing it as it lies in perfect harmony with the rest of the dry, somewhat abandoned farms. Yet this farm is the source of 1,400 liters of milk daily. It has 64 zero–grazed cows each of which produces between 40 and 50 liters daily...

Immediately after he was forcefully retrenched from his TV job at K24 in 2013, Caleb Karuga ventured into poultry farming. Two years later, he has no regrets to boot. In fact, the founder and CEO of Wendy Farms Limited have gone on to build a poultry empire that rakes in over Sh. 800,000 from...

Organic Farming Kenya: Organic farming is being fronted as the solution to emerging lifestyle diseases and environment conservation. As a result, most farmers are taking it up. William Luchera, 69, is one such farmer, practicing organic farming on his one-and-a-half acre parcel in Mundaha...

Dairy Farms in Kenya: This feature was first published by the Saturday Nation: Gita Farm hosts 74 dairy cows. This dairy farm is owned by Evans Gitau, who is a former tout and matatu driver. A majority of the cows now average milk production of about 30 liters. The farm has been built in a...

Garlic farming in Kenya: Moses Karimi Githaiga has been farming garlic for about six years now in Kiawara, a hamlet in Kieni Sub County, about 35 kilometers from Nyeri town. Kieni is considerably hot and dry and has black cotton soil, conditions which favor tolerant crops such as onions. In...

Spend the highest percentage of your farming proceeds expanding your scale of production and you’ll never go wrong. This is the top secret of John Olielo, a renowned pineapple farmer in Homa Bay County. In 1992, Olielo resigned from his job in Nairobi and went back to his home in Kaura village...

At George chicken farm nothing goes to waste. the chicken droppings is a very good raw material for making animal feed and manure," George says - 47-year-old farmer, who resigned from his teaching profession now rearing about 5,000 layers. Preparing the droppings in animal feeds and manure is a...

10 key lessons that will be a driving force this year to ensure every farmer earns from their chicken business. 1. In God we trust, but for livestock feeds, verify: First, whether you formulate your own feeds or rely on commercial rations, you need to test their quality regularly. You see...