Scientists want widespread uptake of a locust bio-pesticide, whose success in Tanzania saved over 15 million people from starvation.

Sudan rakes in more than Sh4 billion a year from exporting 38,000 tonnes of gum arabic while Kenya harvests a paltry 150 tonnes.

Smallholder farmers are warming up to a miniature portable drip kit that offers over 90 per cent efficiency in water conservation for only Sh20,000. The kit comes at a time when water has become scarce due to unprecedented vagaries of weather.

At a time when the price of fertiliser has hit unprecedented highs, innovative farmers are applying water-soluble fertilisers through a drip irrigation system.

One third of all greenhouse-gases emitted in the world come from food systems. The pollution ranges from fertiliser manufacture to food storage and packaging. This is according to a new study, which now recommends farmers to switch to actively cultivating climate-hardy crops such as cassava and millet, while embracing smart farming practices techniques such as no tillage farming.

A new technology to mill dried chilli pepper that is four times faster than flaking by hand has found its way into Kenya.

Boost: The move follows improvements in washing, packaging and processing of beans and could earn farme more billions

A company working to promote products made from local plants has halved felling of trees.

A new breed of farmers keen on improving the living conditions of cows and upping milk yields have invested heavily in cow mattresses.

A masters degree student has turned the vilified cactus plant into a possible ingredient of key household foods.