In February 2018, Maxwell Kiplagat quit his job as a farm manager to start horticulture farming that earns him over Sh60,000 a month up from a sh35,000 salary. He has created a model farm that he also uses to train over 150 farmers to grow horticulture crops including lettuce, cauliflowers, broccoli, tomatoes, onions, passion fruits …
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Asmin Maslah, 31, an irrigation engineer has ventured into short season crops farming thanks to a government sponsored trip to Israel that equipped him with practical skills in crops production. Maslah grows tomatoes and capsicum, two crops that mature in three to four months ready for harvesting and subsequent sale in the market. The farmer …
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In 2013 after working as a clerk at a Nairobi based company for 14 years, Alex Mbugua was unceremoniously dismissed from his job without notice. The shock made him realize he needed a side hustle to supplement his income making him turn to mixed farming on his idle one acre of land in Nakuru. Even …
Driver’s side hustle vegetable farming job earns him Sh50,000 a season Read More »
In 2015, Silas Rutto started farming short season crops to supplement his income as an Information Technology Officer at a Nairobi firm, a venture that that is now earning him approximately Sh780,000 in profits every three months. “I started with one acre but I have now expanded to 16 acres, 10 under potato production and …
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