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Growing up in Turbo near Eldoret town in Uasin Gishu County, Salim Maina, an agricultural engineering technician, knew gooseberry as just another wild fruit.
But in 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Mr Maina, 52, learnt that the wild fruit that grew naturally in thickets in his Kaboi village, and which he often savoured as a young boy, was a high-value crop.
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