January 2015

Motorcycle

Electric motorbikes save Nyakach fish from rot

A start up company specializing in designing and distributing hybrid-charging stations for electric motorcycles in South Nyakach is helping farmers and fishermen access markets in time while saving produce from going bad in an area struggling with poor road network. Charles Ogingo, a mechanical engineer student at the University of Nairobi experienced first hand the …

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mobile phone farmer

Farmers dictate market prices with mobile phones

A mobile phone revolution is redefining how small holder farmers buy and sell their produce, and shielding them from the unscrupulous middlemen who fix prices for their own benefit, with farmers recording tripling of yields by accessing market and comparing market prices on their own. The mobile phones send market prices information from different markets …

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