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Solar panels used for pumping water, Loise encourages irrigation using solar pumps

Farmers in Kakamega County have been encouraged to adopt solar pumping systems to pump water for irrigation and for domestic use. Speaking during a water pumps clinic in Kakamega, Davis & Shirtliff Branch Manager, Loice Mutua said the company is committed to participate in the food chain by ensuring farmers get the right systems to produce enough food.

“As a solution provider we want to play a part in the food chain to support production of enough food at an affordable cost so that the food that reaches the consumer is also affordable,” she noted. She explained that food production is a chain where solution providers are also incorporated. “We always say it is a chain, the farmer will be there to provide food to us consumers, how as a consumer am I affected since should the farmer be unable to produce enough food where will I get it,” she noted.

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