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Why farmers are giving up tobacco for iron beans

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Gilbert Ombok and his wife Grace Ombok at their beans farm at Kababu Village in Suna West sub-county Migori county. [Caleb Kingwara, Standard]

Gilbert Ombok, 56, ditched tobacco farming and embraced high iron-rich beans commonly known as Nyota beans when the adverse effect of the nicotine crops caught up with him.

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