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Farmers battle drought with growing appetite for baby corn

NGOLIBA, KENYA:  It hasn't rained on John Mwema's farm in over a month. But on his one-acre piece of land stand thousands of green maize plants.

"I grow baby corn," said Mwema, bending to examine a bunch of tiny corn cobs. "It is a type of corn that is three to four times quicker to harvest and uses less water than regular corn."

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