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| Ms Margaret Wambui in her sweet potato farm in Subukia she said she shifted Maize farming to sweet potatoes after maize was affected by disease in the last season PHOTO:BONIFACE THUKU |
Farmers in Subukia, Rongai and Njoro sub-counties are ditching maize for drought and disease resistant crops.
The farmers said they have abandoned maize farming after they incurred huge losses due to maize lethal necrosis that affected maize production last season.
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