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Morris Gakuru at his nursery in Kamiu area, Embu County. Gakuru who moves around in a wheelchair to supervise his work has 70,000 seedlings of various fruit trees and plans to plant 100,000 macadamia trees. Photo by JOSEPH MUCHIRI/STANDARD
Morris Gakuru had experimented with many hustles before settling on seedlings farming.
The 28-year-old had worked as a taxi driver, a boda boda rider and a clothes seller but when an opportunity arose; the installation of irrigation water to his maternal grandmother’s home in Kamiu area, Embu West sub-county he relocated there to start Namor Horticulture Nursery.
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