Mercy Corps unveil $5mn AgriFin Digital Farmer initiative
By CNBC
31 January 2019 |
12:42 pm
AgriFin today launched the AgriFin Digital Farmer, a two year, $5 million initiative to support the expansion of high impact, digitally enabled services to at least 1 million farmers over two years across Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Nigeria.
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