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Agri-consultant creates farmer network to help better yields, reach consumers

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By George Munene At just 25 years old, Em­manuel Atamba has built a com­munity of hun­dreds of farm­ers through his com­mit­ment to shar­ing es­sen­tial in­form­a­tion to bet­ter their yields and give them a dir­ect line to con­sumers. Through APSID, (Ag­ri­cul­tural Pro­duc­tion Sys­tems and In­sti­tu­tions De­vel­op­ment Con­sult­ing Com­pany LTD), Em­manuel is work­ing to bridge the gaps …

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Kenyan farmers tap into foreign nationals snail appetite

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In 2007, Rose­mary Odinga, the daugh­ter of former Prime Min­is­ter Raila Odinga was the only snail farmer li­censed by the Kenya Wild­life Ser­vice (KWS) to raise the slimy creatures. However, the ven­ture has been on the rise among Kenyan farm­ers due to in­creas­ing de­mand brought about by the in­flux of West African and Asian na­tion­als …

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