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Smartphone apps link farmers to agricultural markets
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Dr C. Kamidi Muhonja (KALRO-Kenya), isolating Ugandan local chicken gonads for cryoconservation at the National Animal Genetic Resource centre & Data Bank (NARGRC&DB), Entebbe-Uganda…
Biopesticide made from cassava peels cuts grain losses 70 percent
Every year, Cameroongenerates about one milliontons of waste from its cassavaproduction of five milliontons.
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