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boyd
#1 Posted : Friday, July 27, 2012 5:17:00 PM
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Where can I buy good bulb onion seeds for open field planting in semi arid areas(with irrigation)?
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#2 Posted : Monday, July 30, 2012 10:43:23 AM
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boyd wrote:
Where can I buy good bulb onion seeds for open field planting in semi arid areas(with irrigation)?


Each satchet Kes. 140 at most Nakumatts.
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#3 Posted : Monday, July 30, 2012 11:13:41 AM
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visit syngenta for proper advice on soil and suitable species . will save yourself lots of trial and error
I may be wrong..but then I could be right
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#4 Posted : Monday, July 30, 2012 11:54:56 AM
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Simlaw seeds and East Africa Seeds all have varieties suitable for this. Go to thier shops on Kijabe street.
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#5 Posted : Monday, July 30, 2012 11:57:22 AM
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What returns per acre? Anybody with an idea?
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#6 Posted : Monday, July 30, 2012 1:26:29 PM
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maka
#7 Posted : Tuesday, July 31, 2012 12:50:10 AM
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Am currently doing jambar F1 just on the transplanting phase at the moment...hope they bulb well...had asked the same question earlier this nobody gave me a solution,called monsato they gave me contacts of where to get seeds.
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nostoppingthis
#8 Posted : Tuesday, July 31, 2012 8:50:21 AM
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@ Boyd, see link for some guidance http://www.kenyaseed.com/onions.html

The returns per acre are on some brochure....will try and get it to you ...
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jaggernaut
#9 Posted : Tuesday, July 31, 2012 10:00:16 AM
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nostoppingthis wrote:
@ Boyd, see link for some guidance http://www.kenyaseed.com/onions.html

The returns per acre are on some brochure....will try and get it to you ...


Have also seen that they have advertised for Management trainee jobs on that Kenya seed website. Deadline 6th August 2012. Interested Wazuans could have a look.
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mmarto
#10 Posted : Tuesday, July 31, 2012 11:15:14 AM
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maka wrote:
Am currently doing jambar F1 just on the transplanting phase at the moment...hope they bulb well...had asked the same question earlier this nobody gave me a solution,called monsato they gave me contacts of where to get seeds.


Did you say Monsanto? I thought that firm deals in GMO's and are actively fronting their use in africa? I dont think their products are moral....
The only time you should be looking down on others is when you are helping them up.
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maka
#11 Posted : Monday, August 06, 2012 1:32:13 AM
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mmarto wrote:
maka wrote:
Am currently doing jambar F1 just on the transplanting phase at the moment...hope they bulb well...had asked the same question earlier this nobody gave me a solution,called monsato they gave me contacts of where to get seeds.


Did you say Monsanto? I thought that firm deals in GMO's and are actively fronting their use in africa? I dont think their products are moral....

...life sucks then you die my friend,better food security than starvation even if its GMO,s...the container is written seminis,but monsato are the stockists...when you are eating a kuku tht grew in 6 weeks whats that?or milk from a cow that has been engineered to produce 40 litres or tissue culture banana etc etc
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subzero
#12 Posted : Monday, August 13, 2012 5:09:43 PM
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maka wrote:
Am currently doing jambar F1 just on the transplanting phase at the moment...hope they bulb well...had asked the same question earlier this nobody gave me a solution,called monsato they gave me contacts of where to get seeds.


Where did you buy? how much was it?
I hear that its no longer in the market ?

...In which part of the country are you farming ?
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