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REALITY!: REALITY! from
ROP’s Experience
Rural Outreach Program (ROP) www.ropkenya.org www.ajfand.net
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Slide5: Posho (Flour) Mill: Widely used in Kenyan rural areas for grain milling Sifted maize meal. Popularly used for ugali (thick porridge) VALUE ADDING – conversion into more acceptable, longer storing, easier- to- package products
Slide6: Children consuming a meal of cassava with green vegetable NERICA: Africa Rice Congress
Slide7: Kenyan traditional grain store (granary) Once harvested and dried: “It may be traditional but does it make sense in present-day Africa?” NERICA: Africa Rice Congress
Slide8: A Maize plantation; mainly grown in high potential zones Sorghum, being a drought resistant crop is grown in areas with scarcity of rainfall
SG 2000’s sorghum crop for farmers is excellent! NERICA: Africa Rice Congress
Slide9: Arrow roots, sweet potatoes and cassava are secondary sources of energy NERICA: Africa Rice Congress
Slide10: FIND WHERE TO PUT NERICA IN ALL THIS! NERICA: Africa Rice Congress UNDERSTAND THE CONTEXT
Slide11: THANK YOU NERICA: Africa Rice Congress