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Kenya audits informal sugar imports amid market distortion
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (546+ words) Kenya is auditing its informal cross-border sugar trade amid severe market distortions, which are affecting pricing and revenue collections. A brief seen by the Business Daily showed that the Kenya Sugar Board (KSB) is conducting a comprehensive audit of the…...
She ate termites as a child, now she’s built a Sh15m insect protein business
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (998+ words) Dried insects are displayed during an interview at Kahuho in Kiambu county on July 31, 2026. At an age when most children would run away from insects, Olivia Naliaka did the opposite. Whenever the rains fell, neighbours in her village would collect…...
Beyond the app: Why farmers still require human touch in financing
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (502+ words) If you spend any actual time on the ground in places like Kitale, you quickly realise how detached our conversations about agricultural financing are when they happen in air-conditioned boardrooms in Nairobi and other world capitals. Out in the fields,…...
Tea factory fights to join petition on loan probe
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (667+ words) Kiru Tea Factory Company Limited has asked the High Court to allow it to join a constitutional petition by Citibank Kenya, which seeks to stop police investigation into the approval and disbursement of a $2.02 million (Sh261 million) loan. The farmers-owned company,…...
Land administration: The invisible highway of capital
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (866+ words) By Joakim Kidiwa Akumu Every economy has its visible monuments. Roads carry goods from farms to markets, ports connect producers to global consumers, power lines illuminate factories and homes, and fibre-optic cables move information across continents in milliseconds. Kenya is…...
Africa’s food insecurity has eased; make the gains hard to reverse
1+ week, 6+ day ago (359+ words) Bananas at a market in Nairobi. Across Africa last year, fewer people were uncertain about obtaining adequate food or were forced to reduce the quality and quantity of what they ate. The hunger rate fell for the first time in…...
Climate resilience must drive country’s agricultural agenda
2+ week, 3+ day ago (313+ words) A dry riverbed due to a prolonged drought in Kenya. Rising inequality and regional disparities are raising doubts about Kenya’s Vision 2030 and its “Singapore of Africa” ambitions. A new analysis warning that a Super El Niño could threaten 500 million farmers…...
The AI tool helping flower farms cut pesticide use
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1303+ words) A scout at Florensis Kenya horticulture company in Naivasha, Nakuru County Catherine Marofu explaining to a group from Data Science Limited on how sticky monitoring cards work to detect pests on July 16, 2026. Twice every week at one of the country’s…...
Livestock economy: Kenya loves ‘nyama choma’ but starves the hand that feeds it
2+ week, 6+ day ago (865+ words) A herder drives his goat in search of pasture along the Nanyuki-Rumuruti road on Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Every weekend, most Kenyans gather around the fire or in social places to partake in nyama choma. The sizzle of goat meat at roadside…...
Court shields KTDA from corruption probe over tea factory loans
3+ week, 10+ hour ago (576+ words) Factory staff sorts tea leaves at the loading bay of Matunwa KTDA Tea Factory in Kitutu Masaba in Nyamira on June 14, 2022. The High Court has blocked the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) from investigating Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) over…...