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Farmers staring at losses after India shuts door to ‘ndengu’

A farmer harvests green grams (ndengu) in Ngondini Village, Kitui County. Farmers in Ukambani are currently dealing with a glut — bumper harvest with no market — which has disrupted local and foreign markets and caused a significant drop in prices. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Ms Rhoda Kalunda, a peasant farmer from Katulani in Kitui County owns a 20-acre farm on which she has practised mixed crop farming most of her adult life.

The last season was her first major break from perennial poverty, when she was supplied with certified green gram seeds and pesticides by the county government of Kitui and got a bumper harvest.

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