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Nyeri onion farmers protest skewed market

An exhibitor inspects red onions during Farmers Field Day at Wambugu Farm, Nyeri, on July 28, 2018. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

After seventeen years of farming and selling - or trying to sell - onions, Joshua Mwangi has given up on the venture and swiftly moved on to other crops.

Many of his neighbours haven't, mainly because they have nothing else to move on to.

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