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Farm & Community Technologies Ltd
(F.a.C.T Ltd)
Our Products
Seedlings and Agro-produts
Key business areas include production and marketing of crop seeds, vegetative planting materials, marketing of crop and livestock production technologies e.g. pesticides, fertilisers, nutrient supplements, equipments, drugs, etc. Seeds and planting materials handled include:
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Fruits, e.g. strawberry, Passion fruits, bananas
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Herbs and spices
- Strawberry seedlings (chandler) (OUT OF STOCK!!)
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- Passion Fruit seedlings are the
- Purple varierty: Grafted Purple Passion Seedlings at Kshs 50 per seedling
- Sweet Yellow variety : KPF 4 and KPF 12 at kshs 30 per seedling
- Yellow Passion grafting rootstock : C5, Brazil at Kshs 15 per plant.
- Bananas seedlings (macro propagated)(LIMITED STOCK!!)
Dessert or Ripening Varieties:
- Grand nain (Israel, Nyoro)
- Gros Michel (Kampala)
- Sweet banana (kasukari).
These macropropagated banana seedlings are Kshs 60 per plant.
- Herbs and Spices
Thyme (creeping, lemon, common),
- Sage
- Rosemary
- Lemon grass
- Marjoram
- Mint
- Chives
These are live potted plants at each Kshs 150.
You can place an ORDER for freshly harvested herbs and spices.
For more information and purchase
Call +254 706 624 605 or send mail to infofact@elewa.org Training and Consultancy Services
We are currently offering training in:- DAIRY CATTLE MANAGEMENT : Offered to individuals and groups. Our staff can come to you!
- CHICKEN FARMING : Offered to individuals and groups. Our staff can come to you!
- GREEN HOUSE FARMING
- FRUIT FARMING (BANANA, PASSION, STRAWBERRY, MELON etc)
- VEGETABLE FARMING (TOMATO, PAPRIKA, BRINJALS, CHOUX CHOUX, COURGETTES etc)
- DRIP IRRIGATION AND OTHER EFFICIENT WATERING METHODS
- RENEWABLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS (BIOGAS PRODUCTION, SOLAR ENERGY)
Consultancy Services are provided in:
- Project Proposals Development
- Monitoring and evaluation of projects
- Advisory services in crops and livestock production
- Outsourced research and field data collection services, e.g. surveys
- Diseases and pests diagnostics and management
- Conference technical documents packaging and facilitation services.
- Development of agricultural information resources (brochures, booklets, manuals, etc)
1. Collaborator in banana macropropagation project implemented in partnership with Kenyatta University, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute and farmers in Central and Eastern Kenya (funded by RUFORUM).
2. Support to passion fruit project implemented by KARI, Kenyatta University and farmers in Embu, Meru, Eldoret and Elgeyo in Rift Valley.
3. Project on management of leafspot diseases of strawberry.
4. Project to optimise multiplication rates for herbs and spice plants.
3. Project to optimise tissue culture of sweet potato implemented in partnership with Kenyatta University.
4. Consultancy to Assess Quality Management Systems in the Kenya National Domestic Biogas Programme implemneted by KENFAP, SNV, HIVOS and other partners.
New Agro-products!! CLICK HERE CROP GUIDE courtesy of Pascal Logistics International
• Ability to absorb 100-200 times its weight in water as well as dissolved nutrients in soils and substrate
• Reduces watering frequency
• Reduces leaching of nutrients
• Enhances plant growth through continuous availability of water and absorbed nutrients
• Helps to aerate the soils by expanding when absorbing water and contracting when releasing water
• Applying hydrated Absorber avails moisture to transplanted plant and increase survival rates
• Degrades naturally at the rate of 10-15% per year
Achook 0.15% E.C. (Neem based Nematicide / Insecticide)
• Made from neem tree (mwarubaini)
• Effective against nematodes, chewing and sucking pests
• It has anti-feeding, repellent/deterrent and growth disruptant effects
• Does not kill beneficials
• Pre-harvest interval of 8 hours
• Non toxic, biodegradable and environmentally friendly
• Ideal for Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programs
Earthlee (Organic ultra concentrated humate powder)
• Organic 80% humate powder free of heavy metals
• A natural chelating agent
• Increases cation exchange capacity hence efficient transfer of nutrients from soil to plants
• Helps in freeing locked nutrients
• Encourages micro-organism activity
• Improves water holding capacity of the soil
• Inexpensive way of converting normal granular fertilizer to slow release by coating with Earthlee
Kelpak (Organic sea weed extract)
• Natural seaweed extract of eclkonia maxima (kelp)
• Certified for organic farming
• Enhances root development
• Reduces trans-planting shock
• Increases yield
Zaidi (natural plant growth regulator containing brassinolides for tea)
• Increases drought tolerance
• Early bud breaks in pruned bushes
• Increased rate of photosynthesis
• Increase in number of pluckable shoots
• Reduces “banji buds”
• Non toxic, biodegradable and environmentally friendly