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Kenyan startup wins global funding to help farmers fight crop losses

Joseph Nyaga who relies on irrigation water to farm various crops in the semi-arid Kiburu area of Mbeere North, Embu County at his tomato plots recently.[FILE,Standard]

A Kenyan agritech startup has secured international funding to scale technology that alerts smallholder farmers to pests and crop diseases as climate pressure deepens food insecurity across East Africa.

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