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By Xinhua Published: Jul 05, 2021 09:19 AM
Photo taken on Feb. 4, 2021 shows avocados hanging on a branch of a tree in Muranga County, Kenya. (Photo: Xinhua)
Isaac Kinale, an avocado farmer shows an avocado tree on a farm in Muranga County, Kenya, Feb. 4, 2021. (Photo: Xinhua)
Henry Kiama, a middle-aged farmer from central Kenyan county of Murang a planted avocado trees several years ago upon discovering that they guaranteed better returns compared to other cash crops.
Kiama told Xinhua during an interview that coffee farmers in his locality have embraced avocado with gusto amid the promise of higher returns yet tending to the crop is not capital or labor-intensive.
Kenyan smallholders focus more and more on avocados
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