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Rice transplanter

Takeyuki Karasawa operates a walking rice transplanter at Mwea Irrigation Development Centre on September 15, 2021.  


| Joseph Kanyi | Nation Media Group

Machines for precision farming of rice

On many smallholder farms, farming activities are done manually, from planting to weeding, harvesting and threshing.

While this has been the norm for ages, the need for precision and efficiency demands that farmers embrace mechanisation at every stage of production.