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Why Nyanza farmers remain poor

Poverty still strikes farmers especially from those from Nyanza despite the fact that they work so hard to cross the poverty line.

Their status is bound majorly to middlemen whom they depend on to market their produce. The agricultural brokers demand for payment prior to and after linking farmers to the buyers. They buy produce in bulk from farmers at very low prices during harvest leaving the farmers with very little to show for their hard work.

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