Farmers in Nyamira County have been advised to adapt modern farming methods to increase their income and also fight hunger in the region.
Jemimah Anyona, a veteran farmer in the area says she has been getting good income from her four-acre firm which she has utilised well by embracing new modern farming methods.
Anyona says that through her farm she has been able to educate her children and live a decent life.
She added that despite the fact that she is a widow she has managed to take her children to institutions of higher learning, all courtesy of farming.
Practising agriculture as a business, or what she was refers to as ‘realistic farming’, the farmers say will allow for the implementation of beneficial projects by both the government and Non-Governmental Organisations working in the area to improve their livelihood.
Jemimah, a mother of three, says earnings from her vegetable farm is five times more than what she used to earn from her previous ‘Juakali’ job.
“I like the crop because it matures regularly and is a perennial crop that you plant once. I find it very beneficial,” she says, adding that she sells produce every week as a rotational harvest is done.