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Our 'Garden of Eden' is thanks to this pump

Agro Kenya founder Suleiman Kweyu explains how Spiral floating pump woks at Mumias East on June 14, 2018. [Photo: Benjamin Sakwa/ Standard]

Two years ago, Jared Ateya, a farmer in Mumias contemplated quitting farming due to poor rains that almost turned his once productive land barren.

Ateya didn’t only struggle to feed his family as farming was his first source of income, but he risked his children being chased away from school as farming was no longer paying.

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