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Farmers turn barren land into profitable pineapple farms

Barare Nyang'au, a farmer in Mong'oni, Nyamira County at his pineapple farm. He is among many farmers growing pineapples on land that has been barren and which could not support any other crop. [STANLEY ONGWAE/STANDARD].

It is already nine O’clock at Mong’oni village in Nyamira County.

Barare Nyang’au moves three steps to the hedge of his two-acre pineapple farm and smiles before making more strides into the garden.

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