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Sorghum now green gold for residents of dry Eastern Kenya

By Wandera Ojanji

When the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (Kari) introduced gadam - an early maturing white sorghum variety - as a food crop developed for arid and semi-arid areas in 1972, many farmers shunned it in favour of maize.

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