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Kenya hosts youth entrepreneurship summit

The three-day event provides platform for networking, cross-sector collaboration and skills building among top 50 young Africans social entrepreneurs

OPINION

Let’s improve our sugarcane production for sustainability

Instead of the government giving money to bail out factories, it may be viable to get them modern equipment from countries, who are...

FEATURED STORY

TPG Growth leads investment in agricultural data firm, Gro

TPG Growth’s investment was sourced through its strategic relationship with EchoVC, which targets early to growth stage deals in the technology sector in...

POLITICS

County imports impotent male goats

Outgoing Agriculture executive grilled over Ksh 20 million livestock improvement project that saw 1,660 goats, 360 cows and poultry distributed to farmers

FEATURED STORY

Waru farmers set to get farm machinery

Agriculture CS Willy Bett said the government had secured a loan from India to acquire assorted and modern machinery for the multi-billion sub-sector

FEATURED STORY

Agri-tech startup that won Safaricom’s heart

iProcure becomes the second agri-tech firm to receive an investment from the Safaricom Spark Fund

FEATURED STORY

Chris Kirubi: How I made it big in farming from a small piece of land

Farming is not for the faint at heart, and billionaire Chris Kirubu knew that he would have to soil his hands to dig...

ENTERPRISE 101FEATURED STORY

Five promising ways to earn a living

Online shopping, delivery, price comparison and credit availing platforms as well as commodity holding apps, which link the market and the retailer or...

POLITICS

Why Kenya’s economic growth slowed down in 2016

  Kenya’s economy grew by 5.8% in 2016 compared to 5.7% in 2015, pushed down by the agricultural sector which performed poorly. Planning Cabinet...