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Exploitation: Brokers demand tomato boxes in 210kgs packs

Joyce Naserian, a farmer at Rombo area in Oloitokitok, Kajiado County shows her harvest of onions during a farmers meeting attended by Kajiado Governor Joseph Ole Lenku.

No one will be allowed to package tomatoes in boxes bigger than 110kg, Governor Joseph ole Lenku said on Tuesday.

The governor said the order was meant to protect tomato farmers from exploitation by brokers.

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