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Rice farmers ditch crop amid increasing fears of food crisis

Roseline Awuor, a casual labourer, removes weeds from a farm at Ahero Irrigation Scheme in Kisumu County. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Farmers in the Ahero rice belt region and West Kano irrigation schemes are abandoning the crop in large numbers amid fears of food shortage and rise in unemployment. 

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