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MP goes bananas and challenges constituents to try out plant variant

Farming may not be Bondo MP Gideon Ochanda’s main occupation but some of the innovations in his two-acre farm have left his constituents impressed—one of them a professor in agriculture.

Ochanda’s primary motivation is not to make money from the farm by the shores of Lake Victoria. He is more interested in demonstrating to his constituents that farming does not necessarily need a lot of time and effort for one to be successful.

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