If you rarely get rain, this fruit won't disappoint

Though not common, doum palm is one of the fruits that can do well in dry areas such as Turkana and Pokot. [Courtesy]

Temperature in one of the numerous greenhouses at Jomo Kenyatta Univeristy of Agriculture and Technology is attuned to that of perched areas that barely support farming.

And because of the immense heat, clear beads of sweat start forming on our faces immediately we step into the greenhouse where hundreds of banana plants are neatly arranged in sisal planting bags.