New machine saves Nyandarua County potato farmers costs and time

Mechanization changing the face of potato farming

A potato revolution is coming to Kenya as more farmers adopt mechanised farming styles in traditional growing areas of Nyandarua County. Here, farmers are used to manual farming and poor seed varieties, which have in the past, been the source of poverty and disillusionment.

Now the county government has partnered with the German Food Partnership Potato Initiative Africa (GFP-PIA) programme in a public private sector initiative that has brought select local farmers on board with amazing results. The programme is operated under the patronage of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in tandem with Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Food Security and Drought Resilience Project.