Fertiliser

• Kebs to test imports in the sea

  
  1 month ago
  Sugar and other goods will be tested in high seas to prevent contaminated ones getting into Kenya

• Standards test that landed 10 suspects in police cells

  
  1 month ago
  Agency accused of releasing Sh1.4 billion imports that were substandard, but importer insists all regulations were met.

• Four suspects in 7 billion NCPB fertiliser subsidy cartels arrested

  
  2 months ago
  Four people have been arrested in North Rift and Western regions following a crackdown on traders who abused the Sh7 billion fertiliser subsidy

• Lesiyampe fails to attend meeting on audit

  
  2 months ago
  Agriculture Principal Secretary Richard Lesiyampe yesterday failed to turn up for a parliamentary committee hearing to respond to audit queries.

• Dozens of NCPB staff under probe for fertiliser scam

  
  3 months ago
  Three managers among dozens of employees of the National Cereals and Produce Board under investigation in the subsidised fertiliser scandal.

• Police seize 400 bags of fertilizer

  
  3 months ago
  Police have seized 406 bags of subsidised fertiliser that was being repackaged into smaller parcels.

• Which way forward for State’s subsidised fertilizer programme?

  
  3 months ago
  The bottlenecks that affect the State’s fertiliser distribution programme.

• DAP vs NPK: Let’s talk about crop fertilisers

  
  3 months ago
  In fact, this is the fertiliser that was used during planting of cereals in the 1970s until our soils became depleted of organic matter that led to lo

• House team to probe farmers' woes

  
  4 months ago
  MPs will this week open an investigation into the fertiliser scandal that has denied farmers access to cheap inputs despite a Government subsidy.

• How cartels are ripping farmers off in fertiliser scam

  
  5 months ago
  Unscrupulous traders are said to have compromised vetting teams to buy the product for repackaging and sale at higher prices.

• PS Lesiyampe warns traders reselling subsidised fertiliser

  
  5 months ago
  The Ministry of Agriculture has warned traders reselling Government-subsidised fertiliser that they will be charged with economic sabotage.

• Intensify fertiliser use, expert urges farmers

  
  5 months ago
  As the planting season nears, farmers are being urged to use the right type of fertilisers in their fields to increase production.

• Why we started rearing red worms for money

  
  5 months ago
  We first learnt the importance of red worms after training by Welf hunger hilfe, a German NGO. This was a turning point for our agribusiness venture

• Explore mobile fertiliser apps as a strategy in fighting food insecurity

  
  6 months ago
  Failure by farmers to apply fertilisers during planting is one of the key contributors to the shaky food situation in Africa.

• PS rules out fertiliser-making plant

  
  6 months ago
  Mr Lesiyampe said the country does not produce hydrogen, which is a key component in the manufacture of fertiliser.

• For high yields, we need to think beyond fertiliser

  
  9 months ago
  Low crop productivity is a perennial problem among smallholder farms. Some factors that contribute to this reality is exponential decline in soil fertility and high fertiliser costs.

• Export trading group to boost food production with high quality fertiliser

  
  10 months ago
  Agriculture plays a strategic role in the process of economic development of a country.

• New Mobile App eases fertiliser access for farmers

  
  10 months ago
  Speaking in Njoro, Nakuru County, during a demonstration of the app to farmers, the Mobile App manager, Job Oyoo, termed the new platform 'revolutionary'.

• Food production on the rise as fertiliser use increases

  
  1 year ago
  The perpetual food shortage facing millions of Kenyans may soon be a thing of the past following the increased usage of quality fertilisers by farmers.

• How Kebs bowed to pressure to allow import of ‘killer fertiliser’

  
  1 year ago
  In July 2009, a ship carrying 15,000 tonnes of Diammonium Phosphate (DAP) fertiliser from the US to the port of Mombasa was diverted on the high seas back to the US before docking.