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How theft pushed me to ditch poultry for crickets

Charles Odira, a cricket farmer at his farm in Nyamasaria, Kisumu County.[Kevine Omollo, Standard]

Six years ago, Charles Odira’s farm in Nyamasaria, Kisumu East was full of chicken, and anybody who visited the farm admired it.

Little did people know that Odira was grieving, and reporting losses, and was contemplating abandoning the business due to frequent reports by the farm workers about massive deaths of chicken.

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