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New varieties of tree tomatoes and arrowroots ensure bumper harvest for innovative farmer

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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