PlantVillage interns concluded their 3-day training camp at County Green Hotel in Sikata, Bungoma County. They are embarking on a 3-week field training program. They will interact with farmers and learn the technology employed by PlantVillage

Task Mate partnered with Plant Village (a research team at Penn State Uni that helps farmers adapt to climate change) to showcase tasks aimed at improving crop health and food security in Africa, as part of its beta launch in Kenya #google4kenya taskmate.google.com/welcome/#/home

#Kilifi County lead Mercilynn Tsuma presenting about PlantVillage Nuru📱application at the VIRCA Plus Cassava MEDA Project activities in Kwale County. Inception meeting at Pride Inn -Diani,Kwale County🇰🇪

"The Current and Emerging Threats to Crops Innovation Lab will leverage #PennState expertise and past management, it's global network and it's proven PlantVillage approach to tackle pest and diseases exacerbated by climate change" ~ Bob Casey youtu.be/HUBpjHQ8rGA

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Today marked the 1st day of a 3-day training on pest and diseases monitoring on crops. 11 Dream Team Members, will be working closely with farmers & MAAIF 🇺🇬 in 5 districts (year 1) to develop & pilot pest and diseases surveillance tools in 🇺🇬

"NPT donors’ clear, unrestricted and intentional commitment in 2021 means a great deal to the communities we serve and our staff" - Annalyse Kehs businesswire.com/news/home/2022…

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Trees 🥰

The Dream Team Agro Consultancy Limited today hosted Cate Flanley from USAID and Tim Randall from Feed the Future in a visit to our tree nursery and the Asing'e Aggregation Center in Busia County 🇰🇪 where they met lead farmers who demonstrated use of the Nuru app to diagnose cassava diseases.

📸A farmer applies biochar in her Zai pits in Kilifi County 🇰🇪 Zai pits measure 20-30 cm width, 10-20 cm deep, and spaced 60-80 cm apart, can hold up to nine seeds of maize depending on size and can be filled with organic manure, biochar or dry plant biomass.

The expansion of our PlantVillage AI TensorFlow tool for crop disease recognition to farmers in Nepal

"There's no justice without gender justice and youth empowerment," ASAL regions coordinator Melodine Jeptoo tells the story of youthful scouts overcoming hurdles in their service to pastoralists in northeastern Kenya through our Animal Village program. #PlantVillageAGM

John Mayieka JM works on the biochar project. His insightful presentation sheds light on how the product, which is an organic soil amender, compliments our long-term initiative meant to heal the soil. #PlantVillageAGM

The idea of the Dream Team was borne and bred in Busia, as county lead Bismark Plimo puts it while giving an overview of his team's work. He says the cassava project, which has been adopted by a majority of farmers, pioneers all the other projects. #PlantVillageAGM

Mercilyn Tsuma Mercilynn Tsuma leads the Kilifi County team, whose efforts have enabled farmers in the county fight the effects of climate change through zai pits and IPM packages projects. In this way, they have been able to produce more food, she says.

Today, we made our first harvest a month after setting up a large-scale irrigation project at Ririma in Marsabit County, Kenya. Residents from the drought-stricken region can now get nutritious vegetables affordably as we target expanding the project in the ASALs.