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Stakeholders urge farmers to go for crops that thrive in harsh times

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Catherine Mbili, farmer and trainer shows cowpeas, one of the drought-resistant crops she's planted in her farm located Kathonzweni area in Makueni County. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard]

Stakeholders in the Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa (OFAB) have called for the fast-tracking of biotechnology adoption in Kenya which has lagged compared to a global increase of 21 per cent.

OFAB is a platform that brings together stakeholders in biotechnology and enables interactions between scientists, journalists, civil society, industrialists, lawmakers and policymakers.

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