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German organisation embarks on training to boost potato production

German aid organization (GIZ) has embarked on a training program to boost potato farming in areas where climatic conditions favour the crop in Nyandarua and Bungoma Counties.

Potato is Kenya’s second staple crop after maize currently beset by climatic and disease problems. The training incorporates the tuber’s nutritional values usually mistakenly confined to starch.

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