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Elizabeth Nyambura on her tree tomato farm at Kangaita Village in Nyeri County. Nyambura grows arrowroots and tree tomatoes. [PHOTO:KIBATA KIHU/STANDARD]
NYERI: For Elizabeth Nyambura, a two-year wait to reap from tree tomatoes was her turning point in farming.
In 2010, a family friend who was visiting from Holland offered to buy for her hybrid tree tomato seeds. She took her savings of Sh262,000 from proceeds of a tree nursery and imported 750 grams packet of seeds.
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