BY JOSEPH MUCHIRI / SMART HARVEST
A few years ago, there was a craze on rabbit urine.
Every rabbit farmer in town claimed how they had found a ‘minefield’ in rabbit urine. Some fell into scams but others hit some ‘jackpot’ with this liquid fertiliser.
One such farmer who says he got it right and is making a kill is Peter Kagereki. He...
Before you pick a system, you need to consider the breed of chicken, production purpose, growth rate and number of chicken reared.
The commonest methods of poultry rearing fall under three groups — semi-intensive, intensive and free range systems.
Free Range system
This is the most common and...
M-Pesa's daily cash transaction ceiling of Sh. 140,000 is set to be raised. This is in a bid to shore up uptake of the newly launched mobile based bond trading, M-Akiba.
“We are discussing with Central Bank of Kenya to...
Entrepreneur Brit Morin is the founder and CEO of Brit + Co, which she founded in 2011 after working at Google and Apple. She oversees a community of over 125 million users and over 100 employees at the company’s offices in New...
Safaricom has launched a new product that brings together its voice, data, M-Pesa and SMS services. Dubbed FLEX Bundles, the product was launched on Wednesday evening at the Prestige Plaza in Nairobi.
The product targets people in the small and...
The 2017 edition of Forbes Richest people in the world shows that Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote continues to dominate across the continent.
Dangote sits at position 67 globally and position 1 in Africa.The report further shows that this year, the...
In March 2007, Safaricom launched a mobile-based money transfer service that would transform how Kenyans send and receive money as well as pay for bills. Between March 31 and April 16 2007, the newly launched service had 19,671 users...
A man has been charged in court for allegedly hacking KRA systems in an effort that resulted in a loss of Sh. 4 billion for the taxman.
The 28-year-old identified as Alex Mutungi Mutuku is charged is accused of fraudulently causing...
Diamond Trust Bank is set to acquire small lender Habib Bank for Sh. 1.8 billion.
The acquisition will be done through a share swap, with Habib investors getting additional shares in DTB. Habib investors, who already own 11.97 per cent of...
For the second year running, France’s Liliane Bettencourt is the world’s wealthiest woman with a $39.5 billion net worth. The cosmetics heiress’ fortune is $3.4 billion more than a year ago, but that was only good enough to secure...
