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January 2022

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Marikiti trader helping farmers track and predict agriproduce prices

By George Munene   Since 2017, Joshua Mamwaka, an agriproduce broker and trader at Nairobi’s Marikiti market has been charting the prices of Kenya’s agricultural commodity prices. His weekly price updates ensure farmers he works with have the prices of tomatoes, onions, potatoes, etc., at hand. Having mapped price trends for up to three years,

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Irregular irrigation causes splitting in tomato farming

Farm­ers, who fail to fol­low a reg­u­lar ir­rig­a­tion routine, make losses due to the split­ting of the to­ma­toes as a res­ult of stress. To­mato fruits crack after a water short­age fol­lowed by a sud­den ex­cess avail­ab­il­ity. Split­ting or crack­ing makes the fruits lose the mar­ket value, be­sides turn­ing into mul­ti­plic­a­tion zones for dis­ease caus­ing patho­gens

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