Listen Micro enterprises are firms with annual turnovers of up to Sh50,000 and have not more than nine. The law caps the total assets and financial investments, or the registered capital, of a micro enterprise at Sh10 million in the manufacturing sector and Sh5 million in the service and agricultural sectors. Small enterprises are firms […]
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President’s Development Tour
Listen H.E. President William Ruto yesterday began his Nyanza region development tour. The President is set to inspect and commission key projects under the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA), including Kegonga Water Project in Kuria East and Kuja Irrigation Scheme in Migori.
Jennifer Riria – Microfinancier whose mission is to transform women’s lives
Listen Dr. Jennifer Riria was the long serving chief executive officer of Kenya Women Finance Trust and now group CEO of Kenya Women Holdings. Through 27 years of leadership and still counting, she has transformed what was a failing women’s microfinance organisation into one of Africa’s leading microfinanciers, while changing the lives of numerous women […]
Sudan grass boosts supply of livestock fodder in arid zones
Listen Pastoralists in faraway Mandera County in the north-east of the country have never been happier. Tales of drought, starvation and official neglect are gradually giving way to prosperity. And believe it or not, what is changing the fortunes of the people in the region is something many consider a nuisance – grass. In 2008/2009, […]
Lorem Ipsum
Listen What is Lorem Ipsum? Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, […]
The Strategies, The Know How, The Farmers
Listen Although less than eight percent of land in Kenya is under cultivation, agriculture remains the country’s most important economic activity. Only about 20 percent of Kenya’s land is suitable for farming, of which just 12 percent is classified as high potential (adequate rainfall) agricultural land and eight percent as having medium potential. The rest […]