Kenya Avocado Farming: Hass Avocado Taking Lead
Kenya avocado farming has been dominated for years by the green, sweet fuerte variety but since the turn of the decade, this variety has been slowly getting a good friend in the name of...
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The Top 6 Typical Cash Crops to Buy or Sell in Kenya
The most common exports from Kenya are horticultural. These range from tea and coffee to flowers. However, there are several subsistence crops like potatoes that rarely receive mention yet they are great cash crops....
Ngowe and Apple Mango: a Look at Some of the Most Important Local Varieties in Kenya
Kenya has around sixty mango cultivars but in most farms only seven are readily available. There are two major mango varieties in the country that include apple mango and ngowe. The apple variety constitutes...
Kenya Cypress Oil Breathes Life Into Smooth Skin
Greek lore places cypress as one of the trees that can withstand death in that one can find the tree in the afterlife. The reason maybe because of the sizable nature of the tree,...
Kenya Ginger as a Less Grown Crop with More Returns Potential
The growing of ginger across East Africa, particularly Kenya and Uganda, has began to attract regional attention. Importers from other African lands like Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia who have tastes for spices like turmeric...
Kenya Coriander: How To Make Best Use Of The Leaves
Talking of Kenya, the benefits of this spice are not just at combating numerous health conditions like eczema, diarrhea and inflammation but also the happiness it brings when you mix it well. Indeed, nutritionists...
Enrich Your Kenya Beans Via Organic Farming
Legumes are some of the mainstays of farmers in East Africa and as such none beats Kenya fresh beans for versatility, intercropping benefits and supplementary role as a high protein source in the absence...
Kenya Mint: Give It Outstanding Care
Kenya mint is a descendant of the millennial crop from the Mediterranean basin of Southern Europe, which has never ceased of appeal since time immoral. Being a fast-growing perennial plant, it enjoys farming practice...
Kenya Lilies: Amazingly Interesting Facts
Lilies of the Field, as a famous novel goes by that name, is not just a parody but a realistic fact about lilies because they spread majestically all over the field, especially in the...
Understanding Your Kenya Peas
Did you know that the mouth-watering peas you gather in your backyard are more than you can fathom in taste, aroma, use and quality? As much as the English love the smell of heather...
How Kenya Flower Farming Turned Fortunes From Recent Embargoes
There are two apocalyptic moments in the last two decades that have been a bittersweet experience, in retrospect, to flower farming in Kenya. Surpassing tourism as the chief foreign currency earner for the government,...
Kenya Avocado Oil – An Overview of The Kenya Avocado Oil Industry
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History of Avocado Oil
The avocado fruit persea Americana of the family lauraceae was first described by martin Fernandez de encisco Spain in 1519.
The earliest record of avocado existence came from an archaeological dig in...
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