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With mixed cropping, you don't have to worry about pests in your greenhouse

Benjamin Kamande the investor/farmer in mixed farming is the guy with glass shades, a blue jeans and a denim shirt in the photos. The guy with a black shirt and a black cap is Edward Ngang'a- Diamond Property Merchants limited Land Procurement Manager who had turned up for support during the harvest.

The greatest challenge to farming is diseases and finding the most economical way of controlling them is in every farmer’s interest.

In a bid to beat this challenge and maximise yields, Benjamin Kamanda decided to take a rough route rarely trod by agribusiness investors in Kenya — mixed cropping in the greenhouse.

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