butternut pumpkin

Uasin Gishu farmer dumps maize for pumpkins, earns Sh420,000 a season

After cultivating maize for nine years, Uasin Gishu County farmer Kiptanui Kiplagat has dumped the crop for butternut pumpkins, a short season fruit that matures in 90 to 120 days earning him seven times more. “I started maize farming production in 2009 when I was in form three at my father’s land in Ziwa Sub …

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