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Why food manufacturing firms are so hard to start and sustain

Worker in operation at Iria-ini tea factory. [John Gathua, Standard]

While the backbone of Kenya’s economy is agriculture, agro-processing companies can be counted on a single hand, painting a picture of a nation that stops at the primary production level.

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