AgriFI Kenya Challenge Fund
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The AgriFI Kenya Challenge Fund is a € 18 million initiative by Self Help Africa for agri-enterprises.
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Farmers and agronomists in Nakuru County are using the Crop Nutrition Laboratory Services (Cropnuts) Agviza application to learn about farming. Caleb Yegon a farmer from Molo, recently took courses in basic soil health and pyrethrum farming - from seed to harvest.
Farmers in Bomet County are taking up avocado farming with the support of Biofarms Ltd The AgriFI project is supporting Biofarms and Berur Coop to establish an avocado nursery and a packing facility to ensure quality produce for export. devex.com/news/kenyan-fa…
Livestock diseases and deaths are at record levels in Kenya's arid north, with the region experiencing a prolonged drought. Paves Vetagro Ltd is training communities in the distribution of veterinary medicine and good animal husbandry. youtube.com/watch?v=ElJU_P…
Transu runs an integrated business that includes contracting farmers, the purchase of cereals, supplying inputs, value addition, etc. See how this beneficiary of EU-funded AgriFI Kenya Challenge Fund is making a difference: youtube.com/watch?v=GMlMEy… #OnlyOneEarth #WorldEnrionmentday SlovakAid
Supported by the EU🇪🇺 & SlovakAid AgriFI Kenya Challenge Fund Crop Nutrition Laboratory Services (Cropnuts) has established an agri-clinic in Molo, Nakuru County, where it operates a soil testing lab that has to date provided soil tests & fertilizer recommendations to 3,000 of the targeted 5,000 farmers 👇🏿 agrifichallengefund.org/young-farmer-r…
Livestock diseases and deaths are at record levels in the Eastern Horn of Africa, with the region experiencing a prolonged drought emergency. See how EU AgriFI Kenya Challenge Fund supported PavesvetagroLtd is empowering pastoralists.Self Help Africa Kenya Self Help Africa 📽️youtu.be/ElJU_POyAMc
On the #InternationalDayOfCooperatives we highlight the progress of Ndumberi Dairies. Ndumberi has installed an Extended Shelf Life milk processing plant to pack long-life milk ensuring that they buy all their farmers' milk. European Union In Kenya youtube.com/watch?v=FeIRaR… #CoopsDay
We recently visited Litei village in West Pokot County and Lorus in Turkana County where Paves Vetagro Ltd has begun making inroads in providing veterinary services in the midst of livestock diseases and deaths. agrifichallengefund.org/in-the-pursuit… European Union In Kenya SlovakAid
Read all about our work with Paves Vetagro Ltd in availing much needed veterinary services in West Pokot and Turkana Counties. European Union In Kenya
Smart Logistics Ltd has set up 3 mobile aggregation centres which have been equipped with mobile storage cocoons, driers and threshers. The centres are run by youth who earn a commission from offering threshing, drying and aggregation services to farmers. European Union In Kenya SlovakAid
Read all about our European Union In Kenya funded project with Premier Food Limited - House of Peptang in the mango value chain.
This week we are visiting groundnut farmers in Western Kenya who have been supported by Jetlak Foods and Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International Wilkister is one such farmer in Siaya County who has improved her yield and harvested five bags of groundnuts from a quarter of an acre.