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Sunflower farming thrives in Mandera

A sunflower farmer in his farm in Rhamu, Mandera County.

 

Better known for sunbaking heat, aridity, wild inter clan clashes on huge tracks of fallow land with thousands of livestock grazing, some farmers in Rhamu in Mandera County have turned a new leaf. They have taken to sunflower farming by exploiting River Daua which flows from the Ethiopian highlands.

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