Despite the popularity of the tissue culture banana, one farmer in Embu County still holds tenaciously to the indigenous banana.
To 63-year-old Luigina Mbiro Njuki, a former official with the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, indigenous banana are much superior to tissue culture in her farm. Mbiro, from Gicheche village, harvests bananas from her one-acre piece of land weighing between 65kgs to 95kgs each.
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