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August 2016

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OLX SMS links potato farmers to buyers

Potato farmers without Internet-enabled telephone gadgets can now access direct market for their produce after online selling platform, OLX, launched a short message service linkage platform. Speaking during the launch of the service, Kenya OLX Manager Peter Ndiang’ui said more than 9,000 farmers are set to benefit from high prices of selling their produce directly

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Planting plan and market contact helping farmer in selling produce

Timing of planting season and establishing market networks are helping a Kiambu County farmer in selling his produce with little competition to earn profits. Patrick Njenga, who has for more than 10 years specialised in short season vegetable and Irish potato production, said going against other farmer’s growing calendar and keeping market contacts have helped

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Farmer helping others get clean high yielding sweet potatoes

A Nyamira County farmer, who started a sweetpotato nursery bed propagation programme with an international organisation, is helping other agripreneurs access high yielding disease-free planting materials. James Mochere raises the orange-fleshed sweet-potatoes (OFSP), which he got from the International Potato Centre (CIP) in 2013, in nursery beds. His move was to help sweetpotato farmers who

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Simple, cheap aflatoxin testing kit launched for farmers

An international agricultural research organisation has launched a cheap and easy to use device for detection of aflatoxin in harvests of cereals and seeds. International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) scientist Anitha Seetha said the kit does not require technical skills in testing or interpreting outcomes, therefore, appropriate for every farmer. Currently, aflatoxin

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