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Passion fruits earn him a cool Sh30,000 per week

By Mt Kenya Star | 6yrs ago

Gregory Koech tends his passion fruits in Eldoret. He ditched wheat and maize farming for passion fruits farming. [P.C Ngeno, Mt Kenya Star]

Fifteen kilometres from Eldoret town, on the Eldoret-Kapsabet Road, sits Gregory Koech’s farm, on which he grows passion fruits.

The 29-year-old grows the crop on the two-acre farm. He plans to increase the acreage from the current two to five acres.

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