Super cereal: Why finger millet is a health booster

Youthful finger millet farmers in Busia County display their mature crops. [Ayoki Onyango, Standard]

Sylvia Jerono from Marigat, Baringo County, has been on brown ugali for the last three years. She was diagnosed with diabetes and since then, it has been a different journey. She says the finger millet ugali and porridge keeps her blood sugar levels down.

She is one of the diabetic, obese people, and those suffering from other chronic medical conditions, who require brown ugali made from finger millet to stabilise their conditions.