Chicken farming can be quite tricky. There are several challenges that poultry farmers face; such as disease outbreaks, low egg production, and predators, amongst others.
However, in some instances a farmer aiming at increasing his flock’s egg production is disappointed...
Ephantus Wafula, a 38-year-old father of four earns Sh. 35,000 per month from his IT teaching job. However, the salary is hardly enough to sustain him, with his household budget consuming nearly all his earnings. Continues he: “I pay...
As the name suggests, growth stocks are companies that grow substantially faster than others. Growth investors are therefore primarily concerned with young companies. The theory is that growth in earnings and/or revenues will directly translate into an increase in...
Richard Kiprono Mutai from Kapchepkoro village, Sotik, Bomet County, has perfected the art of poultry farming. When we visited his home recently, we found 840 eggs in his three incubators.
In 21 days he expects they will have hatched fetching...
Steve Mwicigi is no doubt a happy farmer producing 65 litres of milk every day from two cows on his 100 by 100ft plot in Gatamaiyu, Kiambu County.
The 31-year-old father of two lives in the same plot with his...
The value investor looks for stocks with strong fundamentals - including earnings, dividends, book value, and cash flow - that are selling at a bargain price, given their quality. The value investor seeks companies that seem to be incorrectly...
When thinking about our car needs, we often think about our 'dream' car or truck. The reality is that you are probably going to need this type of vehicle maybe just once or twice a year, but you will...
Automatic transmission
Automatic transmission cut in half.
An automatic transmission becomes more reliable these days, but still it's a most-easy-to-break and very-expensive-to-fix part of the vehicle. If heavily abused, the automatic transmission can be easily destroyed within just half an hour....
Every end month at the branches of Equity and Cooperative banks in Kajiado town, you will find in the halls long queues of women resplendent in multi-coloured shukas, bracelets and necklaces.
Two tellers in each of the banks are normally...
A car consumes a lot of fuel at speeds below, say, 40-50km/h, consumes the least fuel at speeds between 80km/h and 120km/h, then the consumption goes up again from 120km/h onwards.
At 200km/h, it burns quite a lot of fuel....
