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Kenya secures Sh7.5B loan for subsidised fertilizer & seeds ahead of short rains

By George Munene The African Development Bank Group has approved a Sh7.5 billion loan to Kenya to enable the government to provide affordable fertilizer and seeds to farmers ahead of the October-December 2022 short rains and into the 2022/2023 long rains crop production season. This will boost cereals and oil seeds production by over 1.5 …

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youth digital farmer

Digital innovations to food and agriculture that offer new services for youth and smallholder farmers in Africa

A good number of youth especially in Africa find it difficult to venture in agriculture due traditional ways of farming which require tough manual labour and offer low wages. To make the industry look appealing to this new generations who generally prefer to try their luck finding jobs in cities, there are new key digital …

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