Kenyan farmers adopt growth of dragon fruit amid promising benefits


NAIROBI, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Monica Waiganjo moves through her farm domiciled in the mid-highland village of Kithimani in the southeastern Kenyan lowlands with six farmers in tow. Waiganjo stops at intervals on a cactus-like plant to explain a concept to the eagerly listening farmers.

In recent times, her two-acre farm has become a model farm for a growing niche of dragon fruit farmers in the country.

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