Hydroponics Institutions: Get New Skills Today

In Kenya, hydroponic farming is gaining popularity. Nevertheless, it has spread throughout the world. Regardless of the season, growing hydroponic fodder at home provides plentiful fodder for livestock. Furthermore, the technology achieves predictable vegetable yields that don’t depend on the weather. Learning from the best hydroponics institutions and using it to its full potential will lower food insecurity across Africa and beyond.

One of the pioneering hydroponic farmers in Kenya, Peter Chege, the founder and CEO of Hydroponics Kenya, has confirmed that hydroponic technology is a lucrative breakthrough and a reliable agricultural solution. In Chege’s opinion, hydroponics ensures rapid maturity since plants no longer have to expend energy in finding nutrients essential for growth.

Now several hydroponics institutions and schools are offering training to the youths and also interested farmers on Hydroponics farming techniques to equip them with knowledge of Hydroponics farming as an achievable agribusiness in Kenya.

1.   Miramar International Foundation.

Miramar Foundation is a key pillar of Agriculture and food security. The essence of the Agricultural pillar is to support innovative farming methods that will increase food security and therefore contribute to the development goals of the Country. The young people in particular who are more energized and creative have been given platforms through which they can develop farming structures and increase production.

In the last 5 years, Miramar has trained over 10,000 farmers in hydroponics farming. These trainings have covered Mombasa, Kilifi, Baringo, Nairobi, Machakos, Makueni, Marsabit, Kiambu, Laikipia, Kajiado, Nark, Tana River, and Kwale Counties. Additionally, Miramar has constructed over 1000 hydroponics fodder sheds and over p300 hydroponics greenhouses.

In 2021 MIF worked to train and empower 92 refugees and host community members in hydroponics farming in Turkana County- one of the arid regions in Kenya. Set up of hydroponics production units in 6 different sites in Kakuma township, Kakuma refugee camp,s and the Kalobeyei Settlement saw members of both the refugee and host communities able to produce fruiting and leafy vegetables for commercial and subsistence purposes.

Contacts:

 PO Box 10197 – 00200 10

TRV Office Plaza, Office 1D

Muthithi Road, Westlands.

Nairobi, Kenya.

2. Karen Technical Training Institute for the Deaf.

Karen Technical Training Institute for the Deaf is a Public Tertiary Institution under the state Department of Science and Technology that started in 1990 to offer Technical Training to the Deaf Youth in Kenya.

The Institute trains Students mainly at the level of Artisan, Craft, and a few in Diploma courses; resulting from the minimal number of Deaf Youth who complete the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and the very few who even proceed to the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) Level.

Effective January 2015, the Institute moved the Department of Basic Education to the State Department of Science and Technology, Directorate of TVET, and assumed new status with a higher profile

In this Hydroponic Farming certificate program, you will:

• Learn to grow plants commercially in hydroponics
• Learn about the equipment and materials used in both amateur and professional hydroponics
• Discover the nature and scope of this industry and the career and business opportunities it offers.
• Develop networking, resources, business, and technical skills, building a foundation for success in the hydroponic industry.

OBJECTIVES OF HYDROPONIC FARMING.

• To provide a sound basis of knowledge in horticultural principles as they apply to the culture, use, and management of plants in various production situations.
• To provide new and existing employees who are unable to undertake on-campus training with the opportunity to gain appropriate knowledge in the field of plant culture, use, and management.
• To prepare employees for supervisory and managerial positions in the field of plant culture, us,e and management.
• To provide an understanding of modern technology and its application to growing plants, with the emphasis being placed on hydroponics production of commercially valuable plants.

Contacts:

Our Address. New Gateway House, Thika, Kenya

Email Us. somoguide@gmail.com

 Call Us. +254 772 351 191

3. Finstock Evarsity

 The institute offers a short course in the basics of Hydroponics farming. 

The basics of Hydroponics farming courses are offered for one month on an online program. A certificate is issued on the completion of the courses. The program covers the following.

• How to grow plants commercially in Hydroponics.Types of equipment and materials used in both amateur and professional Hydroponics.
• Developing networking, resources, businesses, and technological skills, building the foundation for success in Hydroponics farming.
• Build DIY hydroponic rial system garden.
• The course also provides an understanding of modern technology and applications to growing plants, with emphasis on Hydroponics production.

Skills obtained throughout the course will enable the individual to set up their own Hydroponics firm and become successful farmers.

PO box 102280 – 00101.

Greenspan Estate, Phase 2, House 118, next to Greenspan Mall, Donholm, 

Nairobi, Kenya

Call: +254703313722.

Email: info@finstockevarsity.com.

Website: https://finstockevarsity.com/

4. Turkana Basin Institute.

Training in Hydroponic Farming in Ileret.

As part of the Water Energy for Food Programme Funded Project in Ileret, they conduct training in Hydroponic Farming for local community members.

In June this year, they conducted public participation meetings to let people know about the opportunity and to share more about the project in general. This was brightened by a mobile hydroponic model. 

The training program is split into 3 phases, an initial8-week intensive education phase, where the students are taught the basics of hydroponic agriculture. A second, 8-week phase will transition from learning to implementation. The final phase of the training is the shift to implementation, where the students implement hydroponic agriculture under the guidance of the TBI team. Due to literacy limitations, they developed hydroponics illustrations with Digital Lions, the world’s first Free Trade Digital Agency, and their neighbors based in Turkana.

Turkana Basin Institute

B21, Zamani Business Park

Karen, Ngong’ Road

P.O. Box 24467 – 00502

Nairobi, Kenya

Phone: +254 716517919 / +254 20 2085911

Fax: +254 20 2085915

Email: info@turkanabasin.org

5. Hydroponics Kenya.

Through the series of field visits to various farms and individual households, the firm selected a few farmers who would be suitable to pilot the urban farming pilot project. They then invite them for a meeting at their main demo farm in Zambezi Kiambu County and also so that they can get to learn about the company, and the systems and also meet the implementing team that will be interacting with them though out the whole project duration.

Location: Zambezi kabz kinyozi, Township, Kiambu Rd, Garissa

6. Urban Farm Demonstration and Training Center – Kenya.

Urban and rural farmers can learn new and innovative best practices in urban farming through the Demonstration and Training Center. Among them are aquaponics and hydroponics. The Urban Farm Demonstration and Training Center aims to tackle climate change, urban migration, soil degradation, population growth, and pollution. Growing plants and fish in a controlled environment is aquaponics. Biologically, fish waste provides plants with organic food and nutrients. During the recycling process, the plants clean the water that goes back to the fish. There is therefore a low water use and waste. As a result of these systems, pollution, pesticides, and the use of chemicals is drastically reduced. Essentially, hydroponics is the production of plants without soil. It is an integral part of aquaponics. Compared to traditional agriculture, hydroponics utilizes 10% less energy. It’s a lot more climate-friendly when practiced inside greenhouses. 

7. Kenya: WFP project to help Kibera become food secure

Two programs in Kibera, a neighborhood in Nairobi, are working to make the area food secure. The World Food Program Innovation Accelerator and the Human Needs Project organization are implementing the Hydroponics 2 Grow (H2Grow) and Empowerment in Action (EMPACT) projects. These programs aim to provide affordable and healthy food, clean water, and digital skills to the community. The H2Grow project, located at Olympic High School, uses hydroponic farming to grow crops in a low-tech and affordable manner. This allows for year-round food production in urban areas where land and water are limited. The projects are demonstrating the potential of urban farming to address poverty and food security.

They Located in Embakasi

8. Kenyan School of Agriculture. 

Kenyanl School of Agriculture offers training on Hydroponics technologies to the students to equip them with current trending Hydroponics systems in farming.

Join the training today and become a Hydroponics farming expert.