Streaming Media
Start Date
8-2018 12:00 AM
Description
Poor-quality seed considerably limits potato yields in Kenya. Smallholders there find it difficult to access clean certified seed. The Syngenta Foundation helped the large Kisima Farm Company to grow high-quality seed for neighboring farmers. Such partnerships take several years to produce results. Kisima now runs a profitable potato seed business. Other farms are beginning to follow.
Scaling Seed Production in East Africa
Poor-quality seed considerably limits potato yields in Kenya. Smallholders there find it difficult to access clean certified seed. The Syngenta Foundation helped the large Kisima Farm Company to grow high-quality seed for neighboring farmers. Such partnerships take several years to produce results. Kisima now runs a profitable potato seed business. Other farms are beginning to follow.
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Creator: Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, Basel, Switzerland syngenta.foundation@syngenta.com