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Digicow app connects over 20,000 farmers to extension workers.Machakos farmer uses simple trenches to supply water 2 months after rains.Molasses key in preserving silage and offering livestock energy.Low cost charcoal cooler keeps produce fresh for a week.Soil tests crucial for obtaining top yields.Thika family farm setting pace in mixed small-scale farming.Managu acts as organic red mite control in other vegetables.KFC to buy Kenyan potatoes if farmers meet stringent requirements.Irregular irrigation causes splitting in tomato farming.Teeth clipping key in controlling mastitis in pigs.Water helps avoid deaths in day old chicks.But demand in Kenya is rising rapidly, on taste, but also for the bulb’s health qualities, with the medicinal plant used successfully to remove or prevent pimples and boils, relieve rheumatism, colds, coughs and sore throats, and manage diabetes and HIV and AIDS complicationsand HIV and AIDS complications. The inferior quality garlic imported from China serve 80 per cent of the local market.
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The unmet demand has resorted to garlic importing from China, Ethiopia and Tanzania.īut locally grown garlic is unique and the market is virtually untapped. RELATED CONTENT : Thika pickle Company maker buys tomatoes, onions and garlic across Kenya ”He added that farmers should venture into this lucrative business as few people practice it due to lack of sufficient information regarding its production, yet it is very marketable due to its demand. “I only export a small amount of the garlic I buy from Kenya to Zambia, as the Kenyan market has a high demand for it and to meet this demand the company is planning to expand its operations by contacting more farmers to supply to us. The company, which has been operating in SADC countries has now dived in the Kenyan market and is buying from farmers at Sh150 per kilogram. James Munga, Managing Director of the Garlic Empire Group, a company that buys and sell garlic, says the demand for this product in Kenya is very high and he has never lacked market, as its untapped. ”Mburu says that from the profits he is able to provide sufficiently for his family and pay school fees. The diploma holder in agriculture said: “I plant the garlic on one acre and harvest 8 tonness selling a kilogram of fresh garlic at Sh200 to Sh300, which is good return compared to maize and potatoes farming. The cost of garlic production of garlic is low as it does not require a lot of care, it’s not prone to pest and diseases, and it grows in relatively dry areas with fertile soils. “I decided to venture in this farming after I realised there was low production of garlic coupled with high demand, as many farmers do not have a lot of information regarding its production.” Mburu said. Farmers selling regular onions bulbs sell at Sh50 per kilogram in good season and can go as low as Sh10 in bad season,” he said.īefore venturing into garlic farming, Mburu was practicing large scale farming of maize, potatoes and cabbage, which did not fetch good prices in the market due to over production, with many farmers involved in this type of farming. “I sell a kilogram of garlic at Sh300 during the good season and Sh100 in a bad season. He has since found that the crop earns six times more than its regular onion counterparts Timothy Mburu a farmer from Naromuru, Nyeri County says he struck gold four years ago after he decided to venture into garlic (Kitunguu saumu) farming, and abandoned large-scale farming of maize, potatoes and cabbage.Mburu invested in farming garlic based on its strong market value and the low production levels in Kenya, at a time when its demand is growing rapidly.
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Timothy Mburu a farmer from Naromuru, Nyeri County says he struck gold four years ago after he decided to venture into garlic (Kitunguu saumu) farming, and abandoned large-scale farming of maize, potatoes and cabbage.