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New rice variety introduced to fight cheap imports that thrive on the name of Mwea Pishori Rice

Agricultural stakeholders have come together to introduce a new rice variety to put in check cheap imports that thrive on the name of pishori.

Despite Pishori’s high demand, it is a late-maturing variety and yields far less than others, hence increasing the gap for the demand.

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