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How to succeed as a rice farmer in Kenya

Farmers at rice farms in Mwea. It takes rice plants four to five months to grow to maturity.

Rice is considered Kenya’s third staple food after maize and wheat.

It is actually the seed of a grass species that is an annual plant

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