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I keep cattle, but my cash cow is herbs: MP Tobiko

Kajiado East MP Peris Tobiko attends to her farm during an interview with The Standard at her Kajiado farm. 21/03/2018. [Willis Awandu, Standard]

When you get a chance to tour a vast farm in dry Kajiado County, you obviously expect to find herds of cattle roaming freely in vast swathes of land. But that is not the case at Kajiado East MP Peris Tobiko’s 250-acre farm in Ikolosat village, Kajiado County.

In addition to hundreds of cattle that graze around freely, the farm has four huge greenhouses where the MP grows not tomatoes but herbs under her company christened Maasai Flavours.

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