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Let’s support small scale farmers to adopt solar energy

Solar-powered borehole in Machakos County (PHOTO: Courtesy)

The World Bank Group in its report of 2018 estimates that nearly 600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa are not connected to national grid electricity and hundreds of millions more live with unreliable connections, plagued by frequent blackouts.

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