Golden ideas

Golden ideas in Molo my problem since I cleared my undergraduate degree at JKUAT in 2012 has been how to add value to agricultural products from Molo.
In my walk around Molo I have come around Keringet Seed Foundation an organization seeking to add value to potatoes. Don't know much about them but their primary purpose was to provide quality potato seeds to farmers a very viable product in this sides of Kenya.
What they have also ventured into is adding value to potatoes.

I am a technology guy however agriculture is the sector that provides most employment.
And as rural urban migration increases there is also increased demand for agricultural products.
A bag of potatoes is currently going for ksh 1000 from the farm, that translates to little or no return to the farmer. Maybe for the same reason infrastructure in these areas is in almost deplorable condition yet this is the food basket of Kenya and even other East African countries to as far as Rwanda.
But there in light in the tunnel if at the end of it then we are close to that end of the tunnel.

Where there is a will there is a way.
Necessity is the mother of all invention including cure or vaccine for Ebola.

I thank God for life and even for securing Kenya's boarders.

Mark you the bags going for ksh1000 are not the normal size but the size on the picture.

Change is on the way, not far away but within.
Being the change we (I) want to see in my generation.

Just finished a three day seminar here for High School Students about 16 availed themselves, the difference makers in this generation.

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