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Outreach to farmers is key to increasing the adaptation of research innovations

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A farmer prepares her farm for planting. [Sammy Omingo, Standard]

While the climate crisis is a major contributor to food insecurity in the country, lack of information on good agricultural practices takes a fair share of the blame.

Unreliable and sometimes non-existent agricultural extension services have led to poor practices, which can lead in turn to low yields for smallholder farmers in many parts of Kenya.

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