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Boda boda that can irrigate crops and ferry farm inputs

Boda boda for irrigation. To irrigate their farms farmers are embracing simple and low cost technologies like a boda fixed with a pump.

For most small-holder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, irrigating crops is a challenge due to lack of simple, affordable, reliable and efficient irrigation technologies.

UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation, in a report, backs this saying the major bottleneck to increased irrigated food production in sub-Saharan Africa is lack of cost-effective productive technologies.

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