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Henry Rithaa, the Managaing Director of the Meru Micro-finance Corporation. PHOTOS: PETER MUTHOMI/STANDARD

Dickson Muriungi has been buying poultry at Marimanti in Tharaka Nithi and selling them at Mitunguu and Nkubu areas in Meru County for the last two months.

On each trip, he usually purchases not more than 10 hens or cockerels at Sh300 each.  Mr Muriungi then sells each bird at Sh500, earning Sh2,000 in profit.

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