PATRICIA Ondere, has since 1986 been growing maize, beans and ground nuts on her two acre farm in Sega, Siaya County. She has all along been reluctant to switch to any other crop having been made to believe that these were the main crops suited for the area's climatic conditions. However, reduced yields over the years saw her try sorghum cultivation. “I decided to diversify into sorghum cultivation after a friend told me there was demand for the crop in the area,” she recalls. Her first yield was however below her expectations though the market was available. But things seem to have turned...
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