KARDEP, Poultry farmers get loans by using SMS

Kakamega county is a high populated zone with wonderful weather conditions and well surrounded with tropical rain forest in Kenya. Poultry keeping in Kakamega county was taken as a cultural practice during ancient time of our ancestors, but the farmers find difficult to adapt this resource to the current market needs. Indeed, the region is unable to feed itself and poor farming techniques are still practiced. Hotels, hospitals, schools and different companies of Kakamega would represent a good market for chicken farmers, but they import them from other Kenyan regions because of the lack of a local supply. We conducted a research and we discovered that 95% of people living in our region own a mobile phone. We realized that the best way to help farmers was to educate rural people to save money.

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