‘Bamboo couple’ making a decent living by growing the crop on a two-acre farm

Victor Mwanga and Flora Awiro working on the products from bamboo cut offs in the work shop at their home farm in Tiriki Tropical Gardens and Farm, Shamakhokho location, Vihiga county. 06/06/2018 (Jenipher Wachie, Standard)

Victor Mwanga refers to the expanse of bamboo crops in his compound as fruits of a love story. To him, the trees represent the love he shares with his wife, and how that love spurred them to venture into the unknown world of bamboo-farming, despite the cloud of hopelessness that hang over them when he quit employment five years ago.  

Before he handed in his resignation letter, he was in turmoil. The thrill he once had when he started out as a logistician at an international company, fresh from Eldoret National Polytechnic, was fading.