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Egerton dons get Sh4.9m to bring back forgotten African vegetable

Dr Mirriam Charimbu with Dr Charles Kihia checks on some Togotia plants on a farm in Njoro for their research project. [Kennedy Gachuhi, Standard]

Egerton University has embarked on a project seeking to reintroduce a neglected native vegetable Erucastrum arabicum, locally known as Togotia.

Dr Miriam Charimbu and Dr Charles Kihia received Sh4.9 million funding which they won for their project in October last year under the competitively granted Innovate Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) Awards 2022.

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