0724 731 799
mkulima@limasmart.co.ke
Mon - Fri: 9:00 - 17:00
Agriculture 4.0 – The Future Of Farming Technology
A number of global trends are influencing food security, poverty, and the overall sustainability of food and agricultural systems.
The World Government Summit launched a report called Agriculture 4.0 – The Future Of Farming Technology, in collaboration with Oliver Wyman for the 2018 edition of the international event. The report addresses the four main developments placing pressure on...
Top 5 Technologies that aid Agriculture
Just as every sector has benefited from the impact of technology, so has agriculture. Farmers depend on information technology for many things; not just in managing farm operations. In fact, information technology has changed the way in which farmers manage crops and livestock. To sum up, such e-Agriculture is a new phenomenon, is here to stay, and is one that is dramatically changing...
Innovation to help manage beehives on mobile phone
Two university students have come up with an app dubbed Ibees that helps farmers detect problems within the hives in real-time.
Jackline Tum and Clinton Odour who are Electrical and Electronic Engineering students at Dedan Kimathi Univesity of Technology came up with the innovation in February 2021. They say they were driven by the need to take care of bees given their importance in food...
Tech Innovations in Farming for Sustainable Future
By Eric Hamilton
Apart from producing food, farmers also protect natural resources – soil, water, and biodiversity. They are also innovators. Since the inception of agriculture, farmers have had to change, adapt and create new ways of cultivating crops, coping with difficult terrain, and enduring extreme climatic conditions and ag weather events. Currently, agriculture is the...
Uganda fertile land can feed 200m says FAO
Uganda’s fertile land can feed about 200 million people, according to a new report by International Trade Administration to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation.
The report says 80 percent of Uganda’s land is arable but only 35 percent is being cultivated. In the fiscal year 2020-2021, agriculture accounted for about 23.7 percent of Gross Domestic Product, and 31 percent of export...
Kenya awaits Kampala talks to settle milk trade standoff
Kenya is awaiting confirmation from Kampala on when to visit Uganda for a verification mission on milk to resolve a two-year trade row on dairy imports between the two countries.
In a bilateral meeting held in Nairobi last December, Uganda and Kenya agreed on other trade issues except for milk. Kampala was to issue a date this month on the Kenya delegation’s trade mission.
Kenya wants to visit...
Traders defy duty-free sugar import quota, raising prices
Traders breached the limit the Treasury set on duty-free sugar imports and shipped in 25.4 percent above the quota by the end of last November, subjecting the consumers to costly sweetener.
According to the Sugar Directorate, traders imported 263,988 in the review period, exceeding 210,530, which is the limit that the Treasury set for sugar coming in from Common Markets for Eastern and...
Mumias sugar takeover now takes another twist
Officials of a Ugandan company, which bagged the multibillion shilling leasing tender for Mumias Sugar Company now risk the slammer after an application for contempt was filed against them, for starting work despite a court order stopping the process.
Tumaz & Tumaz Enteprises moved to court on Thursday accusing Mr Sarbjit Rai, the owner of Sarrai Group, Rakesh Kumar Bvats (manager) and KCB...
Sarrai sets aside initial Sh1.1bn for jumpstarting Mumias Sugar
The Ugandan investor who won the Mumias leasing award will invest Sh1.1 billion to jump-start operations at the ailing miller.
Sarrai Group said the funds, which are only the first batch of capital, would be key to starting the operations at the initial stage with more funds to be injected in due course.
The leasing fee that the Sarrai had bid would go towards paying Mumias creditors to free...
Flour to cost more as NCPB maize price up by Sh300
The National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) has increased the buying price of maize by Sh300 in a second review in two weeks, setting the stage for expensive flour.
NCPB will now pay Sh3,000 for a 90-kilo bag from Sh2,700 as the state corporation moves to attract more stocks in the wake of stiff competition from traders and millers.
The new price will force millers and traders to increase...