Kenya,
faced by an influx of educated youth who idle away due to lack of
employment opportunities has turned to a number of initiatives to help
curb this rising problem.
Among
many partners that have joined the government to offer solutions to the
youth include the Youth Agro Environment Initiative (a non-governmental organization based in Nairobi) which is training youth on modern
farming technologies that can enable them earn a livelihood.
One
of the crops that they chose for this project is the arrowroot which
has traditionally been grown near water bodies due to its high water
consumption.
This
requirement put off so many young farmers as majority do not live near
water sources and also find it cumbersome to practice this type of
farming.As
such, Youth Agro Environment Initiative is now teaching farmers how to
grow the arrowroots in uplands – away from the river – and still get
good yields.
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