A new mobile phone based agricultural software has been launched to help the over 50,000 horticulture farmers in Kenya in data management. The farmforce (FF) software seeks to replace the tedious and cumbersome paperwork that horticulture farmers dealing in green beans and peas export have had to go through. This is in order to comply with food safety standards stipulated by the European market which among other things has been time consuming and a big challenge. According to Dr Marco Ferroni from Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) FF will provide full traceability of the...
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