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Rich cucumber harvest pays off for greenhouse farmer

Irene Kihoro monitors her cucumber plants in a greenhouse at Maombi farm Kabazi in Nakuru County. PHOTO: WILLIES MWANIKI.

Cucumber is a cylindrical, elongated with tapered end fruit with varying lengths from fruit to the other. Cucumber is listed among the foods of the ancient years, and it has been cultivated for more than three thousand years till today.

It has is believed to have originated from India, and later, Greeks and the Romans spread it to the other parts of the world. In Kenya, too, the farming of cucumber is also spreading, and farmers are embracing it by venturing in it.

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