Archives for Success Stories - Page 15
From Engineering to making a fortune in Farming, success story of Samuel Gathigi
Samuel Gathigi, an information systems security engineer at a local airline, had what he describes as a light-bulb moment. A visit to a 70-year-old woman growing tomatoes in greenhouses in…
From a cigarette hawker in Kiserian to a multimillion poultry farmer โ success story of Geoffrey Kago
By 2013, Geoffrey Kagoโs firm, Kaki Village Enterprises, was valued at Sh10 million. The firm had been started in 2002 with capital of just Sh600. This was due to the…
READ HOW Nicholas Kirimi is making Shs. 20,000+ per month from 2 Friesian cow’s in Meru county
A few kilometres from Meru town, off the Kithirune market in Nkando village, South Imenti, sits a farm known as Home of Friesians. The over half-acre farm owned by Nicholas…
How farmers in Uasin Gishu are reaping big from pepper cultivation
A four acre farm in Uasin Gishu, Kenya's food basket, stands out from the rest in specializing on pepper cultivation at a time when maize has dissapointed farmers. The farm…
LESSONS from Agribusiness Empire of Politician Prof Margaret Kamar
AGRIBUSINESS LESSONS: As you drive along the Eldoret-Iten-Chepkanga Road, you cannot stop marvelling at the hundreds of blue gum (eucalyptus) trees lining up one side of the thoroughfare. The trees…
Farmers in Northern Kenya making it big from Rice farming
Sitting next to a wooden structure nestled among bushy palm trees of Jarajara, Garissa County, Hassan Yunis, 70, deeps his hand in a basket full of rice, scoops some and…
Success story of a Kenyan woman who TREATS SICK PLANTS
Growing up in a small village in Western Kenya, I often accompanied my mother and other village women on customary weeding expeditions. Whenever we came across sick plants in the…
Journalist puts down her pen to make millions in farming
Cultural beliefs in some communities have always been a barrier especially when it comes to the issue of women owning land specifically through inheritance which hampers their capacity to be…
Meet Amina Affey the pioneer farmer in Garissa
Since independence, Garissa county has never been considered a hotbed of farming partly due to the climate and preference for livestock keeping. That is why for years, Amina Affey passed…
LEAH MUTHONI: I make Sh. 120,000 per month from my kienyeji chicken
The first thing that catches your eye when you arrive at Leamose Poultry Farm is a flock of multi-coloured indigenous chicken darting joyously from side to side inside a wire…