Firm targets small scale farmers with digital tools to improve crop yields

Yara East Africa Limited Commercial Director Vitalis Wafula (left) and head of digital farming Fredrick Nyambare (right) together with Kisii County Agriculture CEC Esman Onsarigo at a Kisii hotel. The firm held a meeting with agriculture CECs and farmers from the Lake Basin region. [Edwin Nyarangi, Standard]

Six counties in Nyanza and South Rift will work with Yara East Africa, a fertiliser manufacturing firm, to develop digital solutions to address challenges facing smallholder farmers.

County Executive Committee members in charge of agriculture from Kisii, Nyamira, Kericho, Bomet, Migori and Homa Bay who met in Kisii town said the mobile phone-based weather application targeting farmers was a great idea.