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Kenya: Automated greenhouse system to save farming costs and food security

Thanks to greenhouses which have become the in thing with farmers hence giving them much yield at all times irrespective of seasons. Many farmers have been following the conventional routine of tending to their crops in the green house at specific times they were advised by maybe extension officers. However, a group of three university student developers are set to change how greenhouses work by automating them. The automated irrigation system is controlled by a computerized control box that targets water sources for irrigation, control of moisture input and output, to the exact time when the crops need them, wasting not a single precious drop of water or fertilizer.

Anthony Mburu 25, Charles Nyagaka 24, and Japheth Kipkirui 23, belonging to a group calling themselves Tech team are all fourth year students from Kenyatta University's(KU), Electrical and Electronics Engineering department and the brains behind this. It's a prototype of a project called Smart Shamba that won them position five among the 20 competing groups where their valid idea became the best project among their six KU teams in the recently concluded Galileo Competitions by Intel East Africa and driven by iHub that is raring to change how farming is done in Kenya and make some good cash.

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