Kenya: Farmer Dumps Tissue Culture for Indigenous Banana

14 April 2015

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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