Farmer rides to fortune with pump on wheels

Lawrence Wachira boda boda operator demonstrates how he uses his motorbike to irrigate a five acre piece of land. He earns between Sh 80,000 and Sh 150,000 from selling horticultural produce. [Lydiah Nyawira, Standard]

In 2014, Lawrence Wachira was a boda boda operator in Karima Village in Othaya Constituency, Nyeri County, earning an average of Sh300 per day.

Though not much, the money was enough to meet his basic needs. But Wachira, who had been in the boda boda business for four years, felt there was a world of opportunities he needed to explore.