In most african countries and in particular Kenya, Farmers have suffered serious losses due to use of counterfeit herbicides, seeds and other inputs. Efforts have been put in place by government agencies to put up an sms coding system  to help farmers detect and identify the source, Quality of farm input they purchase. Thus traceability of the inputs up to the manufacturing level. TGHis has enabled farmers spring up from low yields to super production.However, uptake of the sms product has been quite low doue to poor communication to the target populace.