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Germplasm offers hope for agricultural growth

With a rapidly growing population, food demands are increasing pressure on our fixed and dwindling land resource. To complicate matters, low yields are rampant across Africa, Kenya included.

According to Asareca (2011), in Eastern and Southern Africa the national average yields of maize, the main staple crop are about 1.5 T/ha compared to global average of 4.5 T/ha.

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