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Basic record keeping injects life into dying farm projects

A farming couple, Fredrick and Hilda Kinoti shows the feeds they make for their dairy cows located in Thimbiri area of Imenti North Sub County in Meru County. The couple is among 7000 farmers across the County benefiting from Sokopepe, a social agribusiness platform that helps to keep their records and link farmers to various markets across the country. PHOTO BY NANJINIA WAMUSWA.

Fredrick and Hilda Kinoti, a couple, from Meru County, ventured into farming close to 20 years ago.

But hard as they tried, for years they made losses after losses.

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