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An innovative mechanical engineering student has designed a unique bamboo umbrella, whose demand by corporates and individuals has hit sky high and is earning him more than triple what he would earn selling the raw bamboo, in a classic case of gains  [ ... ]

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Kenyan scientists use mining technology to test crop nutrients
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Kenyan scientists are learning from their Rwandan counterparts how to use a technology used in the mining sector to test and analyse mineral content of food crops that will ultimately assist them deve [ ... ]

Farmers brace for videos to learn new farming techniques
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Kenyan farmers will soon be taught farming and other farm management practices through locally translated videos as a global not for profit organization, Access Agriculture, recently expressed interes [ ... ]

New potato variety set to up yields and exports
Alice Muriranja for African Laughter

The Kenyan government is set to import a high yielding disease resistant potato variety from Netherlands which will assist the over 800,000 farmers expand their market as hotels and processors shun lo [ ... ]

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