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Digital farmer excels in tree tomato project

Tree tomato fruits on a farm at Amboni Village in Mweiga,Nyeri
Tree tomato fruits on a farm at Amboni Village in Mweiga,Nyeri

John Kiruthi is the founder of agricultural information portal Farmers Trend. However, he also indulges himself in farming, whereby he grows tree tomato and also sells tree tomato seedlings.

“I mainly concentrate on raising tree tomato seedlings in Nyeri and Limuru. I’ve managed to propagate more than 40,000 grafted tree tomato seedlings. I use about 0.5 acres for the seedlings project. The tree tomato farm is one acre each in Nyeri and Limuru,’’ says Kiruthi.

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