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Sylvia Jebet: Gen Z engineer pushing for mechanised farms

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Sylvia Jebet, during an interview with The Standard at the World Mobile Congress in Shanghai China. [Patrick Vidija, Standard]

At the height of Covid-19 in 2020, Sylvia Jebet Kipkemoi, a graduate of Bachelor of Science in Telecommunication and Information Engineering from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), was stuck in the village.

This was after all learning institutions were closed following the lockdown that resulted from the pandemic. A third-year student at the time, Jebet retreated to her village to take up some farm work, as the uncertainties presented by the pandemic unfolded.

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