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NAIROBI. — An African agricultural think-tank has launched an initiative aimed at availing mechanised threshers and airtight storage bags to help reduce post harvest losses of cereals in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) on Wednesday said the 36-month project was aimed at scaling up the use of the two technologies in Africa and will support applied research to bring effective field tested innovations.
“We are starting the project within Burkina Faso and Mozambique to help reduce post harvest losses in cowpeas and soybeans to 10 000 smallholder farmers,” AGRA president, Agnes Kalibata, told journalists in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
Kalibata said that over the years, many organisations have developed a set of innovative technologies to reduce post harvest agricultural losses across the value chain, but in vain.
“For more than 70 percent of Africans drawing their livelihoods from agriculture, finding sustainable solutions to the problem holds tremendous promise for enhancing economic growth, food security,” she said.— Xinhua.
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