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Sunday, May 19, 2013 | 12:09 p.m.

Kenyan Farmers Look to Local Plant For Malaria Protection

A Kenyan farmer harvests ocimum, a natural mosquito repellant. He's part of a grassroots effort to conserve the indigenous Kakamega rainforest, provide new income sources for farmers...and help fight malaria. The crop grows all year round and takes four months to mature. After harvesting it's delivered to a processing plant to produce purified ocimum oil by technicians like Linet Chitambe.
 
 
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