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Uproot my crop? Wake up and smell the Kenyan coffee!

While some farmers in Mt Kenya region uprooted their coffee bushes in the last few years citing poor returns, a farmer from Kathunguri area of Gichugu constituency Kirinyaga County is making a fortune from the same crop.

Simon Muchiri Nyaga, 50, went fully into coffee farming after he quit his job as a primary school teacher in 1999.

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