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Cassava snacks add joy and life to Kilifi youth group

In Kilifi, drought has left thousands of residents food insecure and tubers like cassava are a welcome relief

Instead of dying of starvation households in drought-hit Ganze in Kilifi County have opted to embrace genetically modified cassava.

Members of Mali Shambani Aggregation Group have warmed up to the new variety of cassava variety known as Tajirika which was developed by the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO) in 2018.

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