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40 Crops You Can Plant In Mumias, Kakamega County

BY Juma · April 27, 2023 09:04 am

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Maize in this region is planted on a small scale. All the maize is grown for food, rarely for commercial purposes. In our checkout, we did not find anyone planting upland rice. Perhaps this is a new investment that one purpose to start in this area.

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Bananas, Mushrooms, Passion fruits, pumpkins, and watermelons are some of the crops that can do well in Mumias too. You may try your hand at mushrooms and pumpkins. There are currently no farmers taking part in it from our check.

Mumias is found in Kakamega County. It is within that Mumias Sugar Company is located. With this in mind, most residents in this area are small-scale sugarcane farmers. When Mumias Sugar Company collapsed, the majority of them were hit hard.

Nevertheless, sugarcane is still the main cash crop in this region. Mumias Sugar is back on its feet, although they have not started to contract farmers officially. But other factories like Kibos, and Butali have been buying cane from farmers.

If you are considering starting some farming in Mumias, first think of sugarcane. You do not have to own a piece of land. You can just rent one for at least 18 months and renew the lease based on your agreement with the owner.

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Other crops that do well in this region are:

  1. Foxtail millet
  2. Wheat
  3. Upland Rice
  4. Maize

Maize in this region is planted on a small scale. All the maize is grown for food, rarely for commercial purposes. In our checkout, we did not find anyone planting upland rice. Perhaps this is a new investment that one purpose to start in this area.

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Fruits do well in place. We noticed a number of farmers planting fruits and some of those doing well are:

  1. Grape Fruits
  2. Grapes
  3. Lemons
  4. Lime
  5. Mangoes
  6. Mulberry
  7. Pawpaw
  8. Strawberry

We can advise that you try out Pawpaws and Strawberry. Be in touch with the County Government of Kakamega to help you out in accessing the markets. The Governor has been pushing for.

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Bananas, Mushrooms, Passion fruits, pumpkins, and watermelons are some of the crops that can do well in Mumias too. You may try your hand at mushrooms and pumpkins. There are currently no farmers taking part in it from our check.

Some great crops doing well in this area are cassava, sweet potatoes, arrowroot, and yam. All those who have them on their farm do so for food purposes. Nobody is doing it for commercial purposes. If you are interested in vegetables, all forms of vegetables do well here including Sukuma Wiki, spinach, and terere, among others.

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Juma is an enthusiastic journalist who believes that journalism has power to change the world either negatively or positively depending on how one uses it.(020) 528 0222 or Email: info@sokodirectory.com

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