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Future of beans has never bean brighter

24-year-old Jerios Wachira weeding her one-acre beans farm at home in Mangu, Nakuru County on May 12, 2020. [Kipsang Joseph/Standard]

You probably interact with beans often enough to react when it appears in a story headline. You probably also note that when there is a discussion on main cash crops in the country, beans are not usually among the first suggestions.

Yet, Kenya earns a fortune from the export of beans, as much as it benefits from having a population pumped with the proteins that beans boast. 

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