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Will Kenyans starve in the age of ‘Digital’?

By Kipkoech Tanui

The rains haven’t come and we are in May. Farmers in our traditional food basket regions, especially the Rift Valley, have ploughed their farms. Many others have planted but then the crops have not germinated. If they have, then they are withering in the roasting sun and the once-germinating maize now looks like onions. 

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