Banana farmers from Kenya are set for good business from export of the product to South Korea. [Stanley Ongwae, Standard]Seated on a wooden bench near his makeshift shed at the roadside along the Kisii-Nyamira-Kericho Highway, James Nyabando patiently waits for someone to buy his bunches of green bananas. Moganda has a total of over 800 stems of green bananas in his half-acre farmland. On his farm, Moganda grows the Ng’ombe variety of bananas, besides the Gros Michel type which are the commonest cultivars of green bananas in the region. The prices are almost similar across Nyamira and Kisii Counties where banana farmers mostly sell their produce at near throw-away prices.

Source: Standard Digital May 18, 2021 06:56 UTC