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Mosquito nets offer a safety net for farmers

Jason Mwangi, a fruits farmer and seller, retrieves mosquito nets from garbage sites. [Photo, File]

Use of recycled mosquito nets by small garden vegetable farmers is a common practice. Most of the farmers who use the nets do it to protect the crop from predators (chicken mostly) destroying the crop. What they don’t realise is that the nets protect the crop from invasive pest too.

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