Kenya targets 20 million pairs of shoes as leather industry gets boost
Safari Boots was the signature footwear when Limuru-based Bata Limited, the Kenyan shoe manufacturer, was thriving in the 1970s through to the early 1990s. After the country became flooded with second-hand shoes from Europe and the United States, it set in motion the slow-death in the manufacturing of the footwear...
Kakamega braces for an industrial park
The Kakamega County Government has set aside 48 acres of land at Matawa in Mumias West Sub-county for establishment of an industrial park. County Executive for Trade, Industrialisation and Tourism Kassim Were said the county government is looking for strategic investors to set up agro-based factories to add value to...
Government negotiating with drug manufacturers
The CS assured the leaders that the national government was committed to ensuring the Universal Health Care becomes a reality before 2022.
Farmers at Kenyan coast take tree farming to supply raw material to new factory
Komaza Forestry Ltd sales manager Allan Ong’ang’a said Kilifi and Kwale Counties have over 16,000 contracted farmers to grow trees on their own farms.
Sorghum no longer an ‘orphaned’ crop in parts Kenya
Siaya County’s climate is among the most conducive for sorghum and millet production and its proximity to the Sh15 billion refurbished EABL plant in Kisumu means local farmers are poised to benefit more.
Food security: Arid Baringo has high potential for irrigated farming
Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa wants residents of arid and semi-arid areas to invest more in intensive irrigation farming to become food secure. With only a fifth of landmass suitable for agriculture, Kenya is turning to irrigation to address perennial food shortages. However, investment in irrigation is yet to gain...
Farmers in central Kenya decry AFA ban on macadamia
Farmers in Mt Kenya region want the ban imposed on harvesting macadamia rescinded, citing imminent losses if they are prevented from disposing of their produce as they regularly do between November and February. The complaint follows a move by the Agricultural Food Authority (AFA), which in October 2018 imposed the...
Illegal fishing spikes on Lake Naivasha
“The county government has totally neglected the department of fisheries in terms of funding and currently all the patrol boats have been grounded,” he said.
Kenya plans new law on environmental management
Kenya will enact a new law for the management of solid waste by the end of this financial year. The Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Forestry Keriako Tobiko says his ministry has developed three crucial documents he hopes will guide waste management both at the national and the county levels. The...
