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Sukuma wiki super seed

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Publication date
31/05/2005
Number of Pages
1
Language:
English
Type of Publication:
Working Papers & Briefs
Focus Region:
Sub-Saharan Africa
Focus Topic:
Agricultural Value Chains / Agri-Businesses
Source
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/r4d/PDF/Outputs/CropProtection/R8312Superseed.pdf
Author
DfID

Smallholder vegetable production is an important engine for economic growth in peri-urban areas of East and southern Africa. Growing vegetables provides nutrition, income and employment to over four million poor people in Kenya. The potential number of beneficiaries is huge – in Kenya alone there are more than two million farmers growing significant quantities of vegetables and almost everybody is a consumer of vegetables, particularly kale or Sukuma wiki, meaning ‘pushing the week’ in Kiswahili.