Seeds......Kenya seeds company!

Kenya seeds – farming!

Today, I was on a mission during my lunch hour. This is what I tend to do on my dinner time as firstly I carry my packed dinner as I cannot afford to buy dinner all the time and secondly the office is in a rather remote location for access of Chips etc…..

Sunflower seeds

So anyway, been online looking for the prices on seed. It is no secret, I want to be a farmer for a living. However, researching the various aspects of farming is proving tricky. Most of the information is not online or rather I would need to phone mum or dad for this information; obviously I dare not mention their information is only limited to their location ( venture and physical location). My mum tends not to disclose information on various aspects of farming that she would not like me to venture into; currently the entirety of farming. And so have had to go for alternative source of information

Anyway, I found the website for Kenya Seed; I am not saying they are the best or anything like that, this is the online website of the kind I found. http://www.kenyaseed.com/barley.html

was more interested on the Katumani maize seeds – maturity in 120 days means 4 month and thus in a year I can have 3 harvest with some sort of irrigation. I would not recommend this seed if you want to feed Kenyans with the maize- yellow maize doesn’t go down Kenyans throat. Anyway, for my kind of business this will do just fine. I don’t want to farm cows at this stage so, I don’t need the fodder in large quantities as well, so it all works out

I just wish that the GM food gets here faster and that the website start showing their pricing!!!!!!!!!!! I don’t get this about the Kenyan websites, no one shows the price and no one tends to think of offering wholesale information etc…..

Having said that, i have read somewhere in the news recently stating that farmers in Homabay are now farming passion fruits and hay because Maize is not as profitable. They sell a bag of Maize to the brokers for KES 2,000 instead of selling to the govt for KES 3,000 because they dont want to have to deal with transportation. Now imagine that a farmer has 200 bags of maize; a KES 200,000 loss just because he cannot be bothered by transportation costs?

Anyway, if you got the pricing for the seed company please drop me a line on Kenyanenterpreneur@gmail.com I would appreciate