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Farmers count losses after banana disease ravages crop

Eunice Masitsa, a farmer in Eshitaho village in Kakamega Central, next to a banana plant infected by the panama disease. Farmers in the area face huge loses following outbreak of the disease. [PHOTO: BENJAMIN SAKWA/STANDARD]

By Grace Wekesa

Farmers in Kakamega County have suffered loses running into millions of shillings following the outbreak of a deadly Panama disease.

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