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28-year-old Timau farmer provides blueprint for profitable farming 

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By constructing a water pan for garlic and potato production, young Timau farmer Alfred Koome is providing the blueprint for farmers in his community on how to not only farm but also farm profitably. From the 350,000-liter reservoir, which also holds 200 fish, 10 other families source their irrigation water from him while many of …

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Solar milk pasteurizer improves smallholder farmer profits

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Using a solar milk pas­teur­izer, small­holder farm­ers seek­ing to min­im­ize milk losses along the mar­ket­ing chain es­pe­cially in the arid and semi-arid lands has been de­veloped by the Kenya Ag­ri­cul­tural and Live­stock Re­search Or­gan­iz­a­tion.  The new tech­no­logy will help milk farm­ers and busi­ness vendors pro­long the shelf life of milk and hence im­prove mar­ket- abil­ity …

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