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Brothers make salt with more flavour from reed

Brothers Emmanuel Mtambo and Gilbert Situma cross River Nzoia to fetch reed grass.  [PHOTO: JECKONIA OTIENO / STANDARD]

By JECKONIA OTIENO

Bungoma, Kenya: It is a trade handed down from family to family but who would imagine salt being made from reeds? Meet the Nzoia salt producers of Webuye, Bungoma County.

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