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of professional spraying and record-keeping services, promoted to and accessible by farmers at congregation places (farms stores, cooperatives/associations, produce consolidation/cold storage/processing sites). The best way to ensure PPE use is to hire professional spray services that will have and maintain PPE (See pesticide labels for guidance on appropriate PPE and USEPA website.) 9. NAFAKA shall provide training in proper sprayer use, maintenance and repair. 10. NAFAKA shall provide training in hygiene, washing clothing and equipment, and proper disposal of wastes. VBAAs and lead farmers demonstrate and training farmers on Safer Use & handling of Pesticides Training youth groups and VBAAs to provide professional/commercial sprayer services to farmers Follow up and monitoring of youth groups and VBAAs offering professional sprayer services to farmers. Linking sprayer services providers with farmers associations, AMCOS and SACCOS Product knowledge/Safer Use training to sprayer service providers in collaboration with agro input companies Number of professional Sprayer Service Providers trained Number of providers of professional sprayer service Number of farmers accessing services of professional sprayer services Number of youth groups offering Sprayer Services Number and amounts of grants offered to professional sprayer service providers Number of business Evidence of existence of professional Sprayer Service providers in NAFAKA project areas Data collection Forms to track names of farmers utilizing professional sprayer service providers Annual outcome surveys to determine individuals adopting use of PPEs in NAFAKA project sites Quarterly Annually
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