Agronomic advice, customer stories and industry news.
In-depth technical reads from our agronomy and engineering teams.
What netting manufacturers, greenhouse technicians, and field growers actually recommend at every stage of a shade net's working life — choosing the right shade percentage and colour, installing it as a load-bearing structural element, keeping it tensioned and clean, and storing it properly.
What netting manufacturers, greenhouse technicians, and field growers actually recommend at every stage — choosing the right mesh, installing it so it actually seals, running it season after season, and taking it down without wrecking it.
What manufacturers, field technicians, and experienced growers actually recommend at every stage of a drip line's working life — choosing it, laying it, running it, and taking it back up.
Why Kenya's fertilizer problem is more about ratio than quantity — and how choosing an NPK blend that actually supplies potassium can outperform straight N-P products.
Why Kenya's most popular planting fertilizer works best when rate, placement, and soil pH are checked against the field rather than applied by habit.
From the coconut palms of the coast to the pyrethrum fields of the upper highlands — a region-by-region guide to the crops, cereals and varieties KALRO recommends for each agro-ecological zone.
Irrigation, the diseases that most often ruin a Kenyan tomato crop, and the good agricultural practices that keep both water and pathogens under control.
How the plastic over your head decides what flies in, what pollinates, and what sells — a science-based film selection guide for Kenya's flower, vegetable and seedling greenhouses.
A KALRO-matched onion dripline layout — 30 cm laterals and 10 cm emitters — with full equipment list, zoning and pressure guidance for a 2-metre gravity tank stand.
A practical layout and equipment list for irrigating 1 acre of tomatoes using a 2-metre gravity tank stand and AFRODRIP dripline.
Why fertigation is the highest-return upgrade for Kenyan farmers already using drip irrigation — evidence from Kenyan field trials, JKUAT engineering research, and international agronomic literature.
Why filtration is the single most important factor in reliable drip system performance, and how to choose screen, media, and disc filters for Kenyan conditions.
Why solar-powered water pumps are transforming irrigation for Kenya's smallholder and commercial farmers — evidence from field programmes, development data, and peer-reviewed research.
KALRO-based spacing and dripline emitter guidance for tomato, pepper, eggplant, onion, melon, squash and carrot under Kenyan conditions.
