Tired of poor rains, Meru farmers go for hardy sunflower

Sabina Muriira at work in their one acre sunflower piece of land at Kinyoo, Imenti Central. PHOTO: PETER MUTHOMI.

Farming in this era of climate change has become like playing lottery. You plant a seed, but there are no guarantees that you will harvest the crop because the rains are so erratic. With that reality, a women group has wisenened up.

“We were all fed up of planting crops year after year and getting nothing because the rains did not come, or it was too little. We sat down and vowed not to let the bad weather prevent us from leading a decent life,” says Sabina Murira the chair of the women group in Central Imenti Meru County.