I needed only Sh12,000 to set up this model mushroom farm

Silah Serem at his grass-thatched mud-walled hut where he grows mushrooms in Ng‘enyilel, Nandi County. [PHOTO: ELIUD KIPSANG/STANDARD]

ELDORET: When he chose to study sustainable agriculture, Silah Serem never thought fate was leading him to mushroom farming.

Barely three months after he graduated with a diploma in sustainable agriculture from the University of Eldoret (UOE), Serem has established a model mushroom production venture that is causing ripples in his village.