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Farmers in Kenya do all the hard work while all the money goes to undeserving brokers and middlemen. Theirs is a tragic case of exploitation and loss rather than prosperity.
The challenges farmers encounter when dealing with commodity brokers, paints a picture that would be comical in its absurdity were it not so tragic. A friend, after performing what he describes as “serious math” — using a napkin to tally figures, multiply here, deduct costs there — decided that farming was a profitable venture.
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