Kilimo Kwanza

KK Post-Harvest Series Issue 06/06

Post-Harvest Series: Vegetables — Post-Harvest & Processing

November 12, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 40 min read

The crop category where cold chain emerges as the central infrastructure question — with 25–60% perishability losses, structural import-substitution opportunity through tomato puree, and the emerging cooperative-and-commercial cold-chain…

Features Issue 07/01

Livestock, Fisheries & Apiculture Series, Issue 7: Indigenous Chicken (Kienyeji)

November 11, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 35 min read

Regional dual-purpose meat-and-egg smallholder production — the KARI-Improved-Indigenous heritage flagship, the cultural-and-culinary premium-retail commercial trajectory, and the cooperative kienyeji aggregator emerging commercial-development reference — the seventh instalment of…

Features Issue 07/01

Seed Series, Issue 7: Vegetables

November 11, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 23 min read

The ten high-value horticultural crops that fill East Africa’s urban kitchens — their hybrids, their multipliers, their export channels

Features

Pinda: “A Harvest Becomes Prosperity When It Reaches the Market and Rewards the Farmer”

November 10, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 5 min read

Former Prime Minister and head of the President’s food and agriculture council urges HortiLogistica Africa delegates to turn connections into contracts, and to measure the results. ARUSHA, 9…

Features

Ndejembi: “We Produce a Lot, but We Lose It.” Vice President Lays Bare Tanzania’s Horticulture Gap

November 10, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 10 min read

At the opening of HortiLogistica Africa 2026, the Vice President set out the size of the prize, admitted the losses holding farmers back, and ordered Arusha’s idle flower…

Features

Africa Brings the World to Its Farms as HortiLogistica Africa 2026 Opens in Arusha

November 10, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 12 min read

The continent’s first international horticulture trade platform draws exhibitors from 45 countries. Leaders call for an end to post-harvest losses, the revival of rose exports, and connections that…

Crop Guides

Bulb Onion Farming in East Africa: Value-Chain & Profit Guide

November 10, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 6 min read

Practical value-chain guide covering Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

Features

Kilombero Signs 2027–2030 Compact as AGCOT Calls for Wider Use of Biochar to Restore Soils

November 10, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 6 min read

Government, investors and service providers sign 58 commitments to speed up agricultural transformation in Morogoro. The Regional Administrative Secretary warns that the real test is poverty reduction. MOROGORO,…

KK Post-Harvest Series Issue 05/06

Post-Harvest Series: Roots & Tubers — Post-Harvest & Processing

November 10, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 20 min read

The crop category with unique post-harvest disciplines: cassava cyanide management, sweet potato curing, yam barn architecture — and the regional value-add infrastructure question anchored by Africa Improved Foods

Features

AGCOT Hosts Italian Delegation to Advance Public–Private Action on Climate-Resilient Agriculture

November 10, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 4 min read

DAR ES SALAAM. The Agricultural Growth Corridors of Tanzania (AGCOT) Centre on 9 November 2026 hosted a delegation from Italy’s Fondazione Lombardia per l’Ambiente (FLA). The meeting explored…

Features

Dodoma Signs Deal to Plan New 24,000-Acre Tourism City at Hombolo

November 9, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 3 min read

Korean planners will draw up the master plan for the Hombolo Thematic Satellite City, which will be linked to Msalato International Airport and the Mtumba Government City By…

Features

Ethiopia Urges Faster Commercialisation of Biotech Research, Eyes National Shared Laboratory

November 9, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 2 min read

Ministry calls for stronger public–private collaboration as review of the Bio and Emerging Technology Institute cites gains in crop development, livestock genetics, vaccines and industrial processing ADDIS ABABA,…

Features Issue 06/01

Livestock, Fisheries & Apiculture Series, Issue 6: Broilers

November 9, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 38 min read

Commercial meat-chicken production — the imported commercial broiler hybrid and rapid-growth-cycle foundation, the structural FCR discipline, and the contract-broiler-and-QSR commercial-development reference — the sixth instalment of the Series

Features Issue 06/01

Seed Series, Issue 6: Roots & Tubers

November 9, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 15 min read

Sweet potato vines, cassava cuttings, yam setts — the vegetative seed systems that feed East Africa’s drylands and bio-fortify its diet

Features

From Njombe to Tanga, Singida to Lindi – HortiLogistica Africa opens in Arusha

November 8, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 3 min read

The inaugural fair brings growers, buyers and logistics firms together as Tanzania’s avocado shipments surpass their 2030 target and the country looks to help more farmers reach export…

Crop Guides

Black Pepper Farming in East Africa: Value-Chain & Profit Guide

November 8, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 7 min read

Practical value-chain guide covering Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya

Features

From Social Media to Soil: How Lusitu’s Farmer Model Reached Butiama

November 8, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 6 min read

A conversation between Beno Mgaya and Fredy Magima: proof that Mkulima kwa Mkulima scales Beno Mgaya introduces the Lusitu Agribusiness Group’s farmer-to-farmer replication strategy through the story of…

KK Post-Harvest Series Issue 04/06

Post-Harvest Series: Cash Crops — Post-Harvest & Processing

November 8, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 31 min read

The six commercial-export-and-domestic-industrial cash crops where post-harvest infrastructure quality most directly determines value capture — from coffee washing-station economics to the Mombasa tea auction to pyrethrins-content discipline

Features Issue 05/01

Livestock, Fisheries & Apiculture Series, Issue 5: Layers

November 7, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 37 min read

Commercial egg production — the imported commercial hybrid hen and day-old chick supply chain foundation, the Newcastle Disease vaccination discipline, and the Kenchic-anchored regional commercial poultry industry reference…

Africa

Keep It Out: The Avocado Seed Weevil and Why Tanzania’s Avocado Boom Needs a Border Guard

November 7, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 7 min read

It is not known to be in Tanzania. The aim is to keep it that way. Here is what every avocado grower, nursery operator and trader should know…

Africa

From Potential to Competitiveness: ANAPRI Chair Challenges Africa to Turn Agrifood Ambition into Results

November 7, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 8 min read

As Africa's agricultural policy think tanks met in Addis Ababa from 26 to 29 October 2026, Board Chairperson Prof Andrew E. Temu argued that the continent's problem is…

Features Issue 05/01

Seed Series, Issue 5: Cash Crops

November 7, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 17 min read

The six export and industrial crops that earn East Africa’s foreign exchange — their clones, seedlings and setts

Crop Guides

Banana & Matooke Farming in East Africa: Value-Chain & Profit Guide

November 6, 2026 · Kilimokwanza · 7 min read

Practical value-chain guide covering Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda