DRIED FRESH FRUITS

Farmers in Vihiga, Busia and Homabay counties were harvesting a lot of bananas, pawpaws, and pineapples. in Vihiga county the farmers would sell their fruits at throw away prices to avoid going bad at the end of the day. Middlemen also exploited them by giving very little money as they knew they had never to take the fruits. African assisted the farmers in groups to pay up a solar drying center and not the farmers sell dried produce in packages in supermarkets at good price.

Location: Isindu, Vihiga, KENYA