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Kenya: Vegetables grow best under solar panels

Vegetables
Kenya
Published Mar 5, 2022

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Kenyan vegetables are also found, sold and appreciated in Italian wholesale markets. Starting with green beans that are very successful. The African country focuses on agriculture and agrovoltaics or the synergy between horticultural production and energy from renewable sources. In this case, a very common asset on the African continent: the sun. The British newspaper The Guardian published a research resulting from a year-long collaboration between the University of Sheffield, World Agroforestry and the Latia Agripreneurship Institute based in Kajiado. A study with promising results for agricultural development in the semi-arid county of Kajiado, a 90-minute drive from Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. Cultivating the power of shadow under the panels Solar panels are nothing new on the African continent, where there is rarely a shortage of sun. Instead, under-panel cultivation is, an experiment with such promising evidence in Kenya that it will be spread to open-field farms. With ...
Source: Myfruit
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