NTULELE, Kenya: 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 falsified certificate of authenticity – can make the difference between a bumper crop and a failed harvest, farmers say.
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