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How biotech is transforming farming

Assortment of raw dry legumes composition on marble surface. [Courtesy/iStock]

Esther Gitau, a farmer in Naromoru, longed to eat beans but had given them up due to digestive discomfort.

"I had completely stopped eating beans because they caused stomach upsets and excessive gas. But ever since I started using biofortified beans, I haven't had any problems," she says.

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