Kenya: Sugar Cane Leaves Now Money-Minting Fodder for Villagers

Benson Okome, 38, from Ichinga Village in Mumias, Kakamega County, has resorted to harvesting the overgrown grass on the deserted Mumias Sugar Company's nucleus farm, selling it to livestock farmers as animal feed.

Besides harvesting the overgrown grass on the farms that were once the source of raw material for the troubled factory, Mr Okome also moves around the farms collecting cane leaves.

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