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Cigarette firm plans return to Migori fields

Tobacco Farmer Mr. Muniko fumigates his crops in Kuria, Migori County. [Boniface Okendo,Standard]

When BAT Kenya wound up business in Migori County five years ago, the future of thousands of tobacco growers dimmed.

Alliance One Tobacco (Kenya), too, folded and relocated parts of its business to Tanzania and Uganda.

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