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Innovative Rack Drying Revolutionizes Fish Preservation in East Africa

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Drying fish using low cost racks is reducing drying time from three days to eight hours while doubling market prices among East African fishing communities. Once fish is harvested, the most fishermen dry them on the ground, and therein lies the problem. Besides being easy pickings for animals, the fish stocks are vulnerable to being …

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Ready market & higher returns encourage tobacco farmers shift to beans

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By George Munene Former tobacco farmers in Migori county are shifting to planting high-iron beans under the World Health Organization (WHO) Tobacco-Free Farms project that provides a ready market for their harvest, inputs in seeds and fertilizers as well as farmer training. Farmer groups participating in the project have thus far sold 135 metric tons …

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