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The Standard
The Sh126 million project was meant to improve the performance and profitability of indigenous chicken and Irish potato value chains, as well as incomes for residents. The project of creating indigenous poultry and Irish potato model villages was implemented in six sub-counties and started with 100 households per village in January, 2020. It has a total of 800 indigenous chicken farmers, and 400 Irish potato farmers benefiting directly, translating to 6,000 people benefiting directly. Farmers who previously had poor chicken breeds and lacked knowledge in poultry rearing and Irish potato production, such as Solomon Gitonga, shared their success stories. Kawira also launched a Sh12 million Irish potato storage-cum processor at Ntirimiti in Buuri.
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