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Why Nyalani is Kwale's new breadbasket

A farm under irrigation in Nyalani. PHOTO: JECKONIA OTIENO

KENYA: Nyalani lies somewhere, lost in the vast Kwale County and its name may not elicit any interest at face value.

However, Nyalani has become one of Kwale's breadbaskets thanks to an old water catchment that does not dry up and that has been transformed, thanks to the devolved system of government. Today, a visitor to the region is met by heaps of onions, water melons and butternut all harvested from the previously unused patch of land.

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