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Kerio Valley mango farmers to earn more from two new firms

Workers prepare mangoes that are ripe to be dried for preservation at the Cheptebo Mango Value addition factory in Kerio Valley. [Kevin Tunoi/Standard]

Two multi-million-shilling factories have been set up in Kerio Valley, Elgeyo Marakwet County to open up mango farming in the drought-prone area.

Last week, the Kerio Valley Development Authority (KVDA) tested a Sh100 million mango juice processing factory at Tot, in Marakwet East Constituency and declared it ready to start operations. 

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