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Kenyan start-up wins Sh15.5m award for app to fight fall armyworm

Fall armyworm

A Nairobi-based start-up has won $150,000 (Sh15 million) for coming up with an application that seeks to tackle the problem of fall armyworm in Kenya. 

The outfit, Farm.ink, was among six African start-ups recognised in the United States Agency for International Development Fall Armyworm Tech Prize for coming up with digital applications that seek to provide smallholder farmers with information on how to tackle the menace.

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