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Tomato is new gold as price shoots up

Tomatoes are sold at Muthurwa Market in Nairobi on February 12, 2020. Their prices have increased. PHOTO | SILA KIPLAGAT | NATION MEDIA GROUP

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By  PAULINE KAIRU

Contributor

What you need to know:

  • Unexpected rains towards the end of last year, which have continued into February, have seen tomato prices rise steadily.
  • Isaac Biwott, a resident of Pangani, Nairobi, said his family had switched to tomato sauce and tomato paste to flavour their food.

It has been called the “new apple in town”, “red gold” and “bitcoin competitor”.

Someone even joked about the “precious” cargo receiving police protection while in transit.

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