Laboratory Services
The Cropnuts laboratory uses the latest advances in analytical chemistry. We offer high quality, affordable services to a range of sectors. Our services include
Crop Nutrition Laboratory Services Ltd is a private company that offers laboratory services for agricultural, water, environmental and food safety testing across Africa, with a renowned agriculture advisory and training centre.
We offer both on-farm and off-farm advisory and agronomy services for soil and crop management. We can also arrange training in advisory and agronomy services for you and your existing staff
We have developed a unique AgTech platform to scale our testing and advisory services across Africa. Featuring mobile soil testing labs, data driven agronomic recommendations and smart IoT sensors.
Corporate Clients
Smallholder Farmers
Mobile Laboratories
Field Trials Conducted
Cropnuts is ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accredited by the Kenyan Accreditation Service (KENAS). ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accreditation fulfills the general competence requirements for testing and calibration laboratories and demonstrates our ability to carry out laboratory testing and calibration to an international standard.
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Find out more about how we are working with farmers to improve their yields
Barley farming in Kenya is setting new yield records as witnessed in various barley trials conducted in Timau, Meru County. Trials are a huge part of making progress in farming, and back in September 2018 we harvested something truly special. A plot of barley – 10 metres long by 2 metres in length – that […]
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Ann Muturi, a greenhouse farmer in Kenya’s Kiambu county, has a capsicum farming success story that will rekindle your hope in tomato & capsicum farming Successful Graduate Farmer Ann has won many hats in the past from being a student of math and chemistry at university level, an IT professional and an NGO practitioner to […]
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Onion farming is popular in Kenya and Africa because of the great demand the crop commands. We met up with James, one of our successful onion farmers to tell us his story. Profitable Onion Farming James Mbogo is a farmer at heart. For 7 seven years now he’s been tilling his one acre farm at […]
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The desert locust risk situation in Kenya remains high as additional swarms arrive via the north-east border adjacent to Ethiopia and Somalia. The swarms have already been confirmed in Mandera, Wajir, Marsabit, Garissa, Isiolo, Samburu and Meru counties. Locust Invasion The large immature swarms of locusts first appeared on 28th December 2019, in the North […]
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On 14th December 2019, a new EU plant health regulation ((EU) 2016/2031) comes into operation bringing rigorous new rules to prevent the introduction and spread of pests and diseases of plants in the EU. EU Phytosanitary Certificate Countries exporting fruit and vegetables to the EU must take action to ensure that all consignments are in […]
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Crop Nutrition Laboratory Services, Limuru, off Limuru road, P.O. Box 66437-00800 Nairobi – Kenya
+254 711 094 444 / +254 736 839 933
