Farmers to learn over 100 ways of cooking potato at agri-fair
Some innovations to be exhibited in the Eldoret Agriculture Trade Fair. More than 70 exhibitors and 15,000 farmers are expected to attend the three-day event. PHOTO | COURTESY | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Celebrated Kenyan and Dutch chefs will display how the popular delicacy can be cooked in different ways in a contest aimed at maximising yields from the crop and boosting food security.
University of Eldoret council chairman Prof Harun Mengech hailed trade fairs and farming clinics as forums through which scientific knowledge that will enhance food productivity will be transferred to farmers.
Other technologies to be demonstrated at the fair include cheap hand pushed tractors for farms as small as an eighth of an acre.
Netherlands is the largest exporter of seed potato in the world with more than 630 registered varieties, 33 of which have been registered in Kenya in the last three years.
How many ways of cooking potato do you know of? One boiling, two frying, three mashing... There are 100 of them.
These many ways and other value addition skills will be showcased at the University of Eldoret from September 22 to 24 during an agricultural fair.
