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Buy That Avocado Toast, It's Money in the Bank for Kenya Farmers!

When Steve Mbugua uprooted more than 500 coffee trees on his half-acre farm 8 years ago and replaced them with 500 seedlings of Hass avocados, his neighbours thought he was making a mistake. Now he's making nearly ten times what he earned from coffee...

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A trader selling avocados at Kangemi market in Nairobi.

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Gideon Gitonga tends his avocado trees on his two-acre farm in Mugambone village in Meru.

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