Sugarcane alternatives?

[Spade]

Looks like this bitter sweet story of cane is getting to sour....any agricultural gurus wa western hapa to shed light on other options apart from cane? Got 11 acres.

 

[Mundu Mulosi Bs Ms Ma PhD and ScD]

Ground nuts(the pure red ones), maize, dairy farming.

 

[gashwin]

Looks like this bitter sweet story of cane is getting to sour.

The sugar story soured a long time ago...weren't Nzoia farmers using cane as firewood as early as the mid-90s?

 

[bjurmann]

Anyone who knows the so called sugar barons? Who are they?

 

[Spade]

Ground nuts(the pure red ones), maize, dairy farming.

Oriena papa? Gnuts sounds interesting whats your take on soya?

 

[Mundu Mulosi Bs Ms Ma PhD and ScD]

Oriena papa? Gnuts sounds interesting whats your take on soya?

Don't know much about them, was mostly looking at the market also.

 

[kijanamrefu]

Si wapewe license wapande bhangi ya kuexport USA.

 

[Spade]

The sugar story soured a long time ago...weren't Nzoia farmers using cane as firewood as early as the mid-90s?

These guys were convinced to replant..scheme kuna miwa nyingi

 

[Hash_Tag]

other fruits like oranges, watermelon, grapes, ovacado...

 

[Spade]

This cane should be the last...Trying some fish farming....watermelon also sounds interesting

 

[Mr Black]

Ground nuts(the pure red ones), maize, dairy farming.

Panda peanuts, Fanya value addition process peanut butter and make a killing.

I buy njugu @150 per kilo naenda nakaranga for my own consumption. If I was to buy the same kwa supermarket I'd have to part with 400 Bob, you guys should move out of the volatile sugar industry.

 

[Deorro]

Ground nuts(the pure red ones), maize, dairy farming.

My parents grow them along with maize sorghum, beans n ndegu. All the crops give good yield except for groundnuts which i feel they don't put much effort into. Though per harvest we get like 2 or 3 sacks before the nut covers are taken off

 

[pamba]

Ongeza hapo sweet potatoes,nyanya ,sukuma na mukobero.

 

[Spade]

I'm picki

My parents grow them along with maize sorghum, beans n ndegu. All the crops give good yield except for groundnuts which i feel they don't put much effort into. Though per harvest we get like 2 or 3 sacks before the nut covers are taken off

I'm picking beans from your take...never tried ndengu

 

[Spade]

Ongeza hapo sweet potatoes,nyanya ,sukuma na mukobero.

Hapo sawa. These veges have market with Campuses around. Naona Nduma is popular

 

[Deorro]

I'm picki

I'm picking beans from your take...never tried ndengu

Ndengu matures faster

 

[Spade]

Wazeiya....thanks. ....alternatives ni
Groundnuts
Beans
Ndengu
Dairy farming

Still under research
Soya
Mukobero na hiyo bhangi

 

[Fala 12]

western naona kuna mito mingi mnafaa mfanye irrigated agriculture mingi. vegetables fruits zina bei poa kuliko miwa

 

[gashwin]

western naona kuna mito mingi mnafaa mfanye irrigated agriculture mingi

there were plans to build a megadam in T/Nzoia to conserve water for dry season, control flooding in lower catchment...walipiga siasa kama ya sukari the documents were put on hold to date...

 

[Fala 12]

there were plans to build a megadam in T/Nzoia to conserve water for dry season, control flooding in lower catchment...walipiga siasa kama ya sukari the documents were put on hold to date...

am not being tribal but from what i have seen luhyas need to get their act together, the disunity among their subtribes is too high. if they joined and "talked politically" together like luos no government would ignore them like the situation is currently. that way they would be able to lobby for and get mega irrigation projects, hydro electric plants etc