Nut farmers to benefit from value addition

From right, Homa Bay Deputy Governor Hamilton Orata (with grey hair), the County Executive for Trade Tom Ogada and the County KAPAP Co-ordinator Marting Odengi (in white clothes) in Ndhiwa town yesterday during the commission of 19 machines for processing peanut into various products. Odengi is showing them them how the machines will work. BY JAMES OMORO

Groundnut farmers are expected to double their income after commissioning of 19 peanut processing equipment.

The farmers got the equipment through Homa Bay County Peanut Co-operative Society, donated by Agricultural Productivity and Agribusiness Project (Kapap) to scale up peanuts production in the county.