How banana farmers are getting full value from their crop
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Simion Matunda (left) and Robert Okenye members of Nyangorora Banana Processors display dried banana at the Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute in Kisii.
Nyangorora Banana Processors are into a game-changing initiative towards unlocking the potential of the highly perishable commodity.
The group has constructed cold storage facilities in rural areas in a bid to create community trading centres for increased shelf life.
Bananas continue to fetch low market prices despite the high cost of production incurred by most farmers in Kisii and Nyamira. The smallholder farmers in the region have also been grappling with the uncertainties of market access.
However, all is not lost as a group in Kisii County is on a mission to make a difference. Nyangorora Banana Processors are into a game-changing initiative towards unlocking the potential of the highly perishable commodity by going beyond the fruit value chain to include waste management of banana stems.
