Kenya releases new crop of tech-savvy extension officers

After years of slow motion on the deployment of agricultural extension officers, Kenya is turning to technology to bridge the gap and has trained more than 600 officers under the e-extension services project.

While the number of extension officers had dropped and each expert required to serve up to 2,000 farmers, the freshly minted 654 officers will turn to phones, laptops and the Internet to engage growers across the country in a Sh20 million project started last year.