Horticulture in Kenya: An Overview
Horticulture is one of the major farming activities in Kenya, providing food, income, and employment for the rural population while feeding the ever-growing urban population. …
Effect of Employee Engagement on Organisation Performance in Kenya…
DOI: 10.5430/IJBA.V6N2P77 Corpus ID: 167343053; Effect of Employee Engagement on Organisation Performance in Kenya's Horticultural Sector @article{Otieno2015EffectOE, title={Effect of Employee Engagement on Organisation Performance in Kenya's Horticultural Sector}, author={Brenda Beryl Achieng Otieno …
Export-Oriented Horticultural Production in Laikipia, …
Smallholders in the global South are confronted with new opportunities and risks emanating from globalized markets of agricultural goods. In Kenya, large-scale …
A Quantitative Approach to Innovation in
DOI: 10.1057/s41287-017-0117-0 Corpus ID: 256517216; A Quantitative Approach to Innovation in Agricultural Value Chains: Evidence from Kenyan Horticulture @article{Krishnan2017AQA, title={A Quantitative Approach to Innovation in Agricultural Value Chains: Evidence from Kenyan Horticulture}, author={Aarti Krishnan and …
African Journal of Horticultural Science
About the Journal. The African Journal of Horticultural Science (AJHS) publishes high-quality solicited and unsolicited articles in a wide range of applied and basic horticultural areas dealing with biotechnology, economics, marketing, education, extension, engineering, environment, policy, science, sociology, technology, training and other areas of …
Full article: A 'Private-sector Success Story'?
Kenya's horticulture sector is often heralded as one of sub-Saharan Africa's principal success stories. The country has become the region's largest exporter of fresh …
HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION OF KENYA …
of the Association to date, and the relevance of HAK to Kenya's horticultural sector. Section 2 details the fundamental statements of Vision, Mission, Objectives and Core values. Section 3 presents a detailed formative analysis based on SWOT and PETEL analysis. These sections indicate the strength of the Association to include the diverse ...
The 'Good Wife': Struggles over Resources in …
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(PDF) An Economic Analysis of Kenya's Horticulture Export …
71 International Journal of Economics ISSN 2518-8437 (Online) Vol.7, Issue 1, No.4. pp 63 - 75, 2022 Challenges Facing Horticulture Industry in Kenya The horticulture sector continues to face numerous challenges despite the importance of the sector in contributing to Kenya's economic growth.
The 'Good Wife': Struggles over Resources in the Kenyan Horticultural
This paper examines how the contracting of French beans has engendered conflict over rights, obligations and resources in Meru District, Kenya. In response to pressure for agricultural diversification and the expanding European market for "gourmet" vegetables, horticulture, the historical domain of women, has been rapidly intensified ...
Financing Horticultural Value Chain and Performance of …
This growth notwithstanding, performance of Financial Institutions in this sector in Kenya continues to face a myriad of challenges in the management of credit access. Financial institutions' horticultural value chain financing approaches hamper access to horticulture products loans that increase output by improving farming practices.
The Current Situation of Export-oriented …
Abstract. Kenya embraced agricultural diversification as part of agriculture reforms since 1980s. These reforms were popularized by market-oriented and private sector driven …
Kenya Horticulture Competitiveness Project Fact Sheet
The Kenya Horticulture Competitiveness Project is improving food security and nutrition and raising incomes for over 200,000 smallholder farmers. The project is helping farmers to grow more and better quality fruits, vegetables, and flowers, with a special focus on strengthening the value chains related to eight crops: sweet potato, Irish ...
The Good Wife's Struggle over Resources in the Kenyan Horticulture
Into the distinctly patriarchal Meru District of Kenya, Dolan (2001) looks thoroughly at the intrusion of a horticultural export crop (French beans). Men there have been able to appropriate ...
Farmers' Information Literacy and Productivity …
The horticulture sub-sector contributes substantially to the Kenyan economy, but smallholder productivity is low. This study investigated the role of information literacy on smallholder
Introduction: Kenya – A democracy in retreat?
By the time the violence subsided in April 2008, it had left 1,000 to 2,000 people dead and 600,000 displaced from their homes and communities and cost the economy over 100 billion Kenya shillings (around $1.5billion) (Africa Research Institute 2008). Although Kenya, East Africa's economic powerhouse, had not become a 'failed state', the ...
Horticultural Association of Kenya – Welcome to our …
(ii) Horticultural periodicals including journals, newsletters and reports (iii) Commentaries and reviews on topical issues in horticulture (iv) Brochures, posters etc. (v) Books, …
Export Horticulture and Poverty in Kenya
In sub-Saharan Africa, the promotion of export horticulture has often been proposed as a pro-poor development strategy due to its intensive use of land and unskilled labour. However, few studies have examined the linkage between export horticulture and poverty reduction. This paper reports the results of a survey in Kenya …
The Good Wife: Struggles over Land and Labour in the Kenyan
Focuses on a study which examined how the contracting of French beans has engendered conflict over rights, obligations and resources in Meru District, Kenya. Effect of cultural factors and gender relations on intra resource allocations; Details on horticultural exports and contract farming; Information on the Meru District of Kenya; …
Vol. 19 (2022) | African Journal of Horticultural Science
INTERACTIVE EFFECT OF NITROGEN RATES ON GROWTH OF SPIDER PLANT (CLEOME GYNANDRA L.) ACCESSIONS IN RUIRU, KENYA.
Horticulture in Kenya guide
The horticulture farming in Kenya is one of the fastest growing agricultural sectors. Currently, it is ranked third, in Kenya after tourism and tea also in terms of foreign exchange. Horticulture farming …
African Journal of Horticultural Science
About the Journal. The African Journal of Horticultural Science (AJHS) publishes high-quality solicited and unsolicited articles in a wide range of applied and basic …
Vol. 19 (2022) | African Journal of Horticultural Science
APPLICATION OF BOX-BEHNKEN DESIGN AND RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY FOR OPTIMISATION OF BUTTERNUT (CUCURBITA MOSCHATA) FRUIT YIELD USING FERTILISERS AND PINCHING. Rachael W. Njiru, Prof. Moses M. Muraya, Dr. Geoffrey K. Gathungu.
[PDF] Use of aeroponics technique for potato (Solanum …
DOI: 10.5897/JHF12.012 Corpus ID: 55336477; Use of aeroponics technique for potato (Solanum tuberosum ) minitubers production in Kenya @article{Mbiyu2012UseOA, title={Use of aeroponics technique for potato (Solanum tuberosum ) minitubers production in Kenya}, author={M. Mbiyu and Jane Muthoni …
A Quantitative Approach to Innovation in Agricultural
For horticultural production in Kenya, Krishnan and Foster (2018) support the importance of such horizontal knowledge exchanges. Comparing formal, top-down innovations enabled by GVC integration ...
Multichain strategies and economic upgrading in global …
The Kenyan horticulture market is relatively skewed in favour of large suppliers, with the top-10 exporters accounting for 43% of all transactions and 45% of the total export value. The percentage of multichain suppliers with a 10% multichain strategy increased from 8.6% in 2006, peaking at 11.7% in 2017 to 10.4% in 2018.
[PDF] Governance and Trade in Fresh Vegetables: The Impact …
DOI: 10.1080/713600072 Corpus ID: 26836089; Governance and Trade in Fresh Vegetables: The Impact of UK Supermarkets on the African Horticulture Industry @article{Dolan2000GovernanceAT, title={Governance and Trade in Fresh Vegetables: The Impact of UK Supermarkets on the African Horticulture Industry}, author={Catherine …
23rd Annual Workshop of the Horticultural Association of Kenya …
The HAK annual workshops bring together academics, researchers, practitioners, scholars and farmers, to deliberate varied topics on sustainable horticultural production in Kenya, and more broadly in Africa and the tropics. Young scholars and practitioners benefit from dedicated training, to strengthen their scientific and technical skills.
(PDF) FACTORS AFFECTING HORTICULTURE PROJECT
International Journal of Management and Commerce Innovations ISSN 2348-7585 (Online) Vol. 8, Issue 2, pp: (1-10), Month: October 2020 - March 2021, Available at: FACTORS AFFECTING HORTICULTURE PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION: A CASE OF NATIONAL HORTICULTURE TRACEBILITY …
Effect of Employee Engagement on Organisation Performance in Kenya…
International Journal of Business Administration, 2015, vol. 6, issue 2, 77-85 Abstract: The horticulture sector is estimated to employ over 50,000-60,000 people directly and 500,000 people indirectly through affiliated services to the industry for example farm inputs, transport, packaging and banking (Kenya Flower Council, 2010). It is ...