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The future of farming

Field with rows of colorful, fully grown lettuce heads, ready for harvesting.

Kenya’s over-reliance on rain-fed agriculture is a huge threat to food security. This year has already witnessed poor rains and drought, and with the challenges farmers in the country’s breadbasket are facing, natural and manmade, grain prices have shot up.

This is beside the fact that our taps have run dry, giving an opportunity to hawkers who beside risking lives with their unchecked commodity, rip desperate Kenyans off.

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