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World Service,01 Jan 2014,11 mins

Africa's Flourishing Farms

From Our Own Correspondent

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A special essay finds grounds for optimism in 2014, in the rich terrain of the flower and vegetable farms around Mount Kenya. Susie Emmett finds a bumper crop of ingenuity, innovation and energy when she meets the entrepreneurs and agricultural scientists at work in local businesses ... and finds out what to do when a hippo interferes with your bathtub. Introduced by Pascale Harter. Producer: Polly Hope. Photo: Harvesting hypericum flowers, Naivasha. SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images.

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