The Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO) has devised various technologies aimed at reducing post-harvest losses incurred due to poor handling of horticultural produce.
The new innovations come when farmers incur post-harvest losses of horticultural produce at a rate between 30 and 40 percent.
With support from the World Bank under the National Agricultural Value Chain Development Project (NAVDP), KALRO has unveiled a new post-harvest training unit at the Horticulture Research Institute (HRI) in Kandara, Murang'a.
The unit is aimed at providing farmers with valuable training on handling post-harvest produce, preserving it and extending its shelf life, helping farmers reduce post-harvest losses.
