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M Farm Limited – A beginners guide to onion farming in kenya

50 percent of the red onions in Kenya are imported from Tanzania, as indicated by Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) 2014 report. Kenyan Farmers have been doing their best to address the demand and close the gap, but there is still more supply to be achieved. This makes the Red Bulb Onion a very attractive commercial investment for the Kenyan market at the moment, since local production is not enough.

Major types of onions farmed in Kenya are bulb onions and spring onions. The best areas suited for farming being Karatina, Oloitoktok, Naivasha, Kieni, Emali and Mai Mahiu.

Getting started on chili farming

One of the lessons for beginners in chilies is to always have a market in mind when you start planting chilies. Someone has to be literary waiting for your chilies to pick them as soon as you harvest. Try free-styling just like that and you will be fighting frustrations from your over-ripping chilies with no real buyer to buy your them and a swarm of brokers telling you how to minimize your loses by selling to them as if they are buying rejects.

Lessons for beginners in chili agribusiness

Chilies are good, they add magic to every spoon of food you take, and even more, they can spice up your wallet too. They are a good product, they don’t give a lot of stress, whether harvested green, or left on the farm to turn red, you will still get a buyer. If you don’t get a buyer soon, you can harvest them, dry them and sell them as dried chilies. Either way, chilies won’t stress you much as compared to your other highly perishable produce.

This kind of analogy got Judy to join the chilies club. She is a newbie who has recently delivered her third harvest to an exporter thanks to the MFarm team, a deal which has seen her improve her earnings.