How I rose from a frustrated rice hawker to mill proprietor

Entrepreneur Edwin Kagombe shows off some milled pishori rice at his Tai Rice Mills in Ngurubani town, Mwea .He mills an average of 30tons per day.PHOTO;Munene Kamau/standard

About 20 years ago, Edwin Kagombe was an ordinary rice hawker at Ngurubani town, Mwea, Kirinyaga County.

He used to hawk rice from village to village in the 90s before the sector was liberalised by the government.

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