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Women in rural Kenya to benefit from EU-funded macadamia project

Grace Wamucira (left) and her friend Susan Wangerwa shelling macadamia nuts in Embu.

Photo credit: Rachel Kibui | Nation Media Group

By  Rachel Kibui

Contributor

It is mid-morning in Mbiri village, Embu County and two women are bee busy cracking macadamia nuts.

Each one of them has an improvised wooden hammer which he uses to strike the nuts to remove the soft green outer cover, exposing the brown nuts.

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