Rains or not, I plant and harvest healthy crops year in year out

Christine Wangeci posing near her water pan that she uses to farm tomatoes and water melons on her farm in Maragua Ridge,Murang'a County.PHOTO:JAMES WANZALA/STANDARD

While some farmers are so dependent on the rains, others have ‘wisened up’ and realised the opening up of heavens has come unreliable. A small number of farmers from the rocky and dry Kambiti in Murang’a County, are demonstrating that despite the erratic rainfall patterns, it is possible to have a thriving farm year in year out.

Thanks to their smart solutions, while farms in the neighbourhood are still fallow, theirs are beaming with life. Ephantus Muigai’s farm is dotted with healthy maize, rich butter nuts almost ready for harvest, oranges just few months to ripening and healthy looking tissue culture bananas.