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New vegetable drier rescues farmers from market dynamics

Members of Mapema Star women group sort vegetables begore drying them using the solar conduction drier.

Excited and full of unusual energy, Yunuke Nyakerario, a resident of Metamaiywa, Nyamira County, lifts a 40kg sack of Black Nightshade leaves onto her head just as she would a sack of feathers.

Her destination is a homestead that for the last one month has become a beehive of activity due to an awesome farm invention expected to revolutionise marketing dynamics of vegetables and other horticultural produce in the area.

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