Explain two problems facing wheat farmers in Kenya
Answer Text: a. Farmers have inadequate capital to buy inputs which lowers the yields. b. Pests such as dusty brown beetle which eat stem damaging the plant. c. Diseases such as the fungal stem rust which attacks the stem.d. Price fluctuations on the domestic market especially when selling through middle men. e. Shortage of storage facilities because the produce is transported to straight to NCPB before it sells it. f. Climatic hazard such as the stormy rains which flattens the crop leading to rotting and drought which may destroy entire crop.g. Soil exhaustion due to monoculture.
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