Profitable Tomato Farming in Kenya: BY SMART HARVEST - Nicholas Njagi's seven acre tomato farm located in Igamba-ng’ombe, Tharaka Nithi County, produces 400 boxes of tomatoes per acre and this season is no different.
With seven acres under the crop, he harvests...
Owning Land in Kiambu County: Land is one of the most purchased and most looked for property around the outskirts of Nairobi, and Kiambu being one of the neighbouring Counties, it offers the best and most affordable lands for...
Things Poor People Do: The word “poor” can usually be linked to someone’s monetary status, but it also has significance in many other ways. In numerous cases, financially poor individuals have poor mindsets, which is oftentimes why they stay...
Costs of roofing materials in Kenya: Roofing materials and attic products can determine the final look of your new house. Here are the cost of roofing materials in Kenya
Roof windows
By installing windows on the roof, you can turn the...
Hydroponics in Kenya: Childhood best friends Wachira Mwangi and Samuel Mbugua are teaching farmers a technique that may sound like the stuff of science fiction — growing crops without the use of soil and making a tidy sum out...
Maina Kageni Family: The following story reveals how popular media personality Maina Kageni inherited property that his late father left behind.
This story was first published in The Star Newspaper:
Succession battles in Kenya have left many families in anguish years...
If you want to entice Henry Kinuthia out of his African nightshade— popularly known as managu— farming enterprise, he says you should be ready to pay him a million shillings per month.
Otherwise, he says, “you can keep any other...
Diesel vs Petrol Cars:
Fuel economy
Historically, diesel cars have been more efficient than petrol ones. They simply burn fuel in a more efficient manner, which means less used per kilometre. So, you get about 30 or 40 per cent more...
Challenges and successes in farming: For Mixa Foods and Beverages to be the profitable business that it is now, Herrine Omenda had to nurture the crops on her farm as much as she did her five-year-old daughter.
Barren virgin land...
