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Sunflower farming brightens life in semi-arid Kitui village

Rhoda Musembi (holding jar), a member of Wikwatyo Women Group, feeds a grinding mill with sunflower seeds to process cooking oil at their processing plant at Kyandula market in Kitui County. The women group is involved in growing sunflower crop and processing its oil for home use and for sale. Looking on are other members of the group. [Philip Muasya, Standard]

At the sleepy Kyandula trading centre in Kitui South, a group of women gathers around a specialised posho mill, readying a sack full of sunflower seeds.

One woman powers on the electric machine, and it bursts into life. Its grain-grinding jaws rotate purposefully, and the woman eagerly processes the seeds into oil.  

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