Pumping water for irrigation and other uses using a motorcycle.

 Here is a new invention by a Kenyan innovator, to help farmers pump water from shallow wells to beyond 1km for irrigation using a bodaboda (okada).

Motorcycles have proven to be a reliable form of transport, especially in the rural areas, but now there is another reason why every farmer should invest in one — it can be used to pump water!

Lawyer who turns banana into flour.

Entrepreneur Eric Muthomi of Stawi Foods.

As a child, Eric Muthomi’s parents would take the entire family to their upcountry home in Meru during school holidays.This is a strategy employed by many Nairobi parents to date. It is meant to show their children the other side of life — no cars, tilling land and walking bare foot.

But as a young adult, Mr Muthomi, now 27, noticed something that would see him make it into the Forbes’ 2013 list of 30 Under 30: Africa’s Best Young Entrepreneurs and featured on CNN as the owner of the few upcoming African businesses.

From Computers to Greenhouse.

Food Africa Enterprise Limited director John Maingi (left) in his farm in Kahawa Sukari, Nairobi with a friend Bob Martin

When  meeting  John Maingi, he is ecstatic. He had earlier spoken to a high-profile client he had been introduced to and there were prospects he was going to offer him a job.

The client was a former government official who owns 10 acres in western Kenya. He was consulting Maingi on the best crop to plant this season.

And he had another sweet deal for him. He wanted Maingi to manage the farm. Maingi arranged to visit the farm in a week’s time for a survey before he could advise him on the way forward.

Pomato - growing potato and tomato from one stem!

 

 

After losing his job as a matatu (bus) conductor in Kiambu town due to overindulging in alcohol, Wangoto became a petty thief to survive. “I was caught red-handed inside a chicken coop in the middle of the night holding two large birds. How could I even deny that I was stealing them?” he asks.

In November 2011, he was sentenced to one year at the Kiambu GK Prison. The Gachie resident says that this was a blessing in disguise since his prison experience equipped him with new farming skills.

From N30,000 per month, to N20,000 every day!

Susan Chesyna in her tomato farm in Nakuru

An inspiring story of a Kenyan lady who was a teacher on a monthly salary of N30,000 but veered into farming  and earns about N20,000 daily

I became a farmer seven years ago after I relocated from Baringo to Nakuru County and settled at Kiamunyi, in Rongai.

When I arrived in the county, where I had earlier bought land, I could not stop marveling at its beauty. The land was fertile and the crops were growing well unlike in Baringo, where erratic rains and drought were regular.

Mushrooom growing made simple and easy

                               Farmer Paul Kisiangani with mushroom at his farm.


Mushrooms are consumed by humans for their nutritional value and  its cultivation is steadily gaining a foothold in many communities where the crop is considered to be a delicacy.

Gone are the days when people would wait for the crop that has medicinal value to grow in bushes or hillsides and then go to harvest.