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Farmers to get affordable quality coffee seeds

• Turkey helps set up a coffee seed irrigation unit and drip irrigation system to produce more coffee for export, local consumption. • Because of  drought and low rainfall, an efficient, ground-level targeted system has been set up to save water.

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by The Star

Big-read24 January 2023 - 13:29
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Seedbed propagation unit at the Coffee Research Institute, Ruiru, Kiambu county.
Turkish Embassy in Nairobi commercial counselor Mustafa Alici, Coffee Research Institute Director Dr Elijah Gichuru and Dr Felista Makini, the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization deputy director general incharge of crops at the CRI coffee seed garden in Ruiru, Kiambu county.

Farmers will now be able to access affordable quality coffee seeds through cooperation with Turkey.

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