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I use cabbage to kill lethal worms

Victor Swanya inspects his cabbage plants in his Tinderet farm, Nyamira County. PHOTOS: SAMMY OMINGO]

Nematodes are worm-shaped pests in the soil that are invisible to the naked eye. They can cause significant damage rangingfrom trivial injury to total damage of plant material.

Nyamira politician Victor Swanya has found a unique way of controlling the pests, also called root worms, in his farm that has 18 greenhouses.

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