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New farming model that uses small space takes town by storm

Nursery preparation experts tend to a Squarefoot box Garden farm with lettuce in Kiserian at Latia Resource Centre. [David Gichuru, Standard]

What if each of the eight million parcels of land in the country had crops? Experts believe this could hold the answer to the country’s perennial food shortage as one commercial farmer  recently discovered.

Sometime in March this year, Valentine Miheso visited Isinya, in Kajiado to look for ways to make his 7-acre parcel in Kiserian more productive.

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