Why Kenya’s Forgotten Local Vegetables Prove A Culinary Hit

Once the wild herbs and “a poor man’s dish”, local leafy vegetables in Kenya are more common – bend on farms, sold in markets and bend menus of restaurants.

Only in the Gachie, the capital Nairobi, a worker in a leather restaurant “Kinyji” – all local vegetable varieties are known – the higher for other greens.

“When many people came here, Kitiyeji wants to BBC,” BBC says that they are more difficult for the restaurant.

Before the 1960s, vegetables such as cabbage, spinach, kale and spring greens presented by the colonial authorities are easier and cheaper. Spring greens are known as Sukumawiki, known as “Sukumawiki”, which reflects the daily staple.

However, the dishes in Gachie are part of the growing wave of Kenyans who see a rich food rich in food rich in food rich in local food.

“This is good in harmless and weight loss in weight,” says James Wathiru, who ordered James Wathiru, “Managu” or African Nightshade.

Another person said to me, “It’s all about his taste, it’s better.”

According to gardening materials, the mayor Abukutsa-Onyango, this trend was reflected in government information, and some health benefits are supported by research.

Over the past 10 years, the production of local greens has increased twice – last year’s local farmers are produced by 300,000 tons.

It is a remarkable change to those used for traditional plants for traditional plants – they do not think that they are more durable to disease and pests, as well as more durable to agriculture.

As in the 1980s, when the proficiency starts on Abukutsa-Onyango research, he said he was confused to find what was called “weeds.”

“We have never learned about the local local vegetables in Africa. Amaranth ‘Pigtweed’ (and) called the spider plant, ‘They called the spider grass,” said BBC.

It was also difficult for his traditional plants, because it was difficult because they were not literature about them, but he continues and now works with the government to promote them for food safety.

Other local vegetables such as Mrenda (JUTE MALLOW) and Terere (Amaranh) have more important minerals than Sukumawiki, as well as increase immunity and reduce the risk of improvement.

Some species also contain protein, make them an excellent choice for vegetarians. For example, MRENDA is more than 100 grams of 100 grams, which is better known when cooking, it contains more foods than a similar part of the common cabbage.

Progress such as Prof. Abukutsa-Onyango, people have made the knowledge of diversity and local vegetables Admitted by UNESCO in 2021, The UN Cultural Agency “Protection of the intangible cultural heritage” in the “protection of intangible cultural heritage”, which is threatened by “the pressure of modern lifestyle”, is appreciated by the “protection of the intangible cultural heritage”.

He noted that Kenya includes 850 local plants and their local names to celebrate the inventory of traditional dishes that have started a project in 2007.

Some of these vegetables are eaten across the country, while others are inherent in certain areas or communities.

However, first introduced to Kenya from the Mediterranean, and many farmers were still approved – doubled the volume of all local-ten-tons of more than 700,000 tons of more than 700,000 tons in 2023.

Francis Ngiri, which appears to be a major product in Kirindaga in the outside Kenya, explains that it uses fertilizers and pesticides that harmed local biodiversity in the 1970s.

Today, the BBC says that when the land has become very acidically to support many homes, only the species are developed.

Mr. Ngiri, Mr. Ngiri, Mr. Ngiri, was able to apply organic farming, relatively touched by chemical pollution, because they decided to do something for those who will not lose forever.

In Elementayta, four hectares (1.6 hectares) began with a 14-native variety of 9 in 2016. Today, along with many, farmers grew up to 124, where he grows with seed exchange. Now his farm attracts guests from Kenya and neighboring countries.

How do organic food breeding 800 other regional farmers for local markets, to protect and restore and restore “forgotten plants”, to ensure the protection of genetic diversity for future generations.

By changing the seeds, Mr. Ngiri and colleagues are in fact violations of the law, authorizing the law, authorized the government.

This controversial law was presented in 2012 with the intention of protecting farmers from obtaining poor quality seeds.

Wambui Wakahi, who trains farmers in seed conservation, said that such policies and seeds are not in the shops without farms, he said.

Seed banks with seed banks with seed banks containing 400,000 members of seed banks, are working for a non-governmental organization.

The team founded “completely lost” in a single district due to more than 35 traditional plant varieties.

“If (farmers) pay attention to exotic (external) seeds, then traditional seeds continue to walk away. We saw most of them exhausted,” he said.

Mr. Ngiri and seed exchange, others were not persecuted by the authorities, but the law does not prevent them from marketing: “I do not sell seeds.

And certification, certification, expensive process, because the seeds need to be tested in a laboratory, such as purity and germination.

Kenyan Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (Kalro) National Gen Bank Dr. Dr. Wambugu (Kalo) acknowledges the exchange and sale of certified seeds by current law, certified seeds – a crime committed by farmers.

At the same time, it shows that the plant has risen in international agreement on the international agency for food and agriculture, which has signed a signed to save, use, use and exchange farms and exchange farms.

The National Gen Bank is working with the Kenyan Law Agreement with Aligy and the Ministry of Agriculture with other groups under the Rule Project.

The proposals passed by the parliament will allow the seeds to intimidate the seeds of “what they did.”

However, the sale of such seeds will still remain illegally – something is the fact that the trip to Dr. Wambugu has continued to travel to the full reception of local plants.

There is no turning for a vegetable wangige market in the Busty Wangige market in Kiagbui County in Kiagbui, because he found that something famous for the local greens has put them in the media campaigns that introduce them.

“The most selected Managu, Terere and Kanzira (Africa Kale) – says” BBC “who is popular for those who are popular for those who are sensitive stomachs.

“But all Kienyeji greens are good because they have a better taste.”