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Modern lab where top grade tissue culture bananas are nurtured

Joyce Macharia 36 year old farmer at tissue culture banana Secondary Hardening stage. She explains that strict adherence to aseptic standards and micro-climatic conditions and care during the hardening process results into successful seedling production at the nursery. PHOTO BY MERCY KAHENDA

With more farmers embracing the high yielding tissue-culture bananas, demand for its seedlings has gone up.

Enter Joyce Macharia, 36, a biochemist from Ngata in Nakuru County. Armed with vast knowledge and experience in plant science, Macharia developed China Kenya Laboratory, an industrial laboratory to supply farmers with disease-resistant, fast maturing and high yielding tissue-culture banana seedlings.

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