Kenya: Finding Fakes - Mobile Phones Help Detect Counterfeit Seeds in Kenya

Ntulele — Besides more unpredictable weather and changing crop diseases, Kenyan farmers face another worry: counterfeit seed.

Seed sold as something other than it is - the wrong variety or with the wrong characteristics, sometimes marketed with a falsfied certificate of authenticity - can make the difference between a bumper crop and a failed harvest, farmers say.

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