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The coconut industry at the Coast is on its knees thanks to ageing East African Tall (EAT) varieties, pests and diseases, poor market linkages, and vagaries of climate change.
Johnstone Mbigo, a 73-year-old farmer in Junju Ward, Kilifi County, has witnessed this firsthand. “In the 1990s, I earned up to Sh80,000 per season. Now, I make less than Sh20,000 from three seasons combined,” he laments.
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