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How app helps Kenyan farmers manage farm books

Thomas Ngaruiya, a farm extension officer, engages Edward Kaimenyi, a farmer in Meru County, on indications from the records he collected from a plot he grows maize [GARDY CHACHA/STANDARD]

Before Fridah Gatwiri could confidently say, with pride, that she is a farmer, she had contemplated quitting altogether.

"I was getting frustrated: I had very little motivation to do anything expected of a profit savvy farmer," she says.

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