What should you look at when buying a dairy cow in Kenya today? Well, for the average Kenyan farmer, the best cow is one that produces the highest quantity of milk. In reality, the best animal is a relative...
Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. In reality, more features will more likely make the product confusing and...
The heart is the muscular organ that pumps blood through the blood vessels of the circulatory system. It also distributes oxygen and nutrients throughout the body.
When the heart is unable to pump enough blood and oxygen to support the...
Richard Matoke and Glausen Wamalwa had just completed their final exams at the university in 2009 when they developed a library administration software.
Aged 23 and 22 then respectively, the two computer science students at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture...
For one to begin buying and selling shares at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) you need to:
Open a CDSC account with a stock broker or an investment bank. The account is free.
Deposit the amount of money you...
After retiring from the Kenya Police Service, Benard Muhia invested his money in pyramid schemes hoping to get good returns but his hopes were dashed when the schemes collapsed.
With the little money set aside, he bought a piece of...
INTENSITY: Anyone with an intention of making money must be prepared to concentrate first. In entrepreneurship, you must focus on one line of business for a start.
Here, one should look at their competitive and comparative advantage to know how...
George Kuria, an International Business Administration graduate from the United States International University, quit a high-income job at Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) in 2013 after working for less than a year to venture into agribusiness.
Nothing has come easy though...
Meet Daniel Hojman of Afimilk, a company specialising in dairy management in the Jordan Valley, Israel, popularly known as Kibbutz Afikim. Daniel is famed as one of the world's top dairy farmers.
It is farms such as that of Hojman’s...
Cages in chicken farming: The rows upon rows of red-to-tan birds furiously peck their marsh dishes, creating a symphony which is only disrupted, now and again, by a cacophony of clucking.
The birds occasionally tilt a small metallic knob above...
