Pyrethrum farming is slowly making a comeback in Kenya as county governments take initiatives to promote the crop that was once a major foreign exchange earner. Over the past six years, production of ...

Up to 4,000 farmers in Kabale are now engaged in growing pyrethrum either as their main enterprise or alongside food and cash crops in their fields. In some cases, a few of them have completely ...

TAMMY: Pyrethrum is a natural insecticide, made from plants in the now-obsolete genus of daisies that included chrysanthemums and tanacetum. The active chemicals in these plants are called pyrethrins ...