China telecoms graduate opts for farming

Oscar Gitonga packs banana at his 30 acre farm in Mitunguu, Meru.

It’s all about bananas in Meru’s Mitunguu Rwompo village. But one farm stands out. Verdant Farm, a 30-acre farm owned by one young man Oscar Gitonga.

Gitonga, though a graduate in Telecommunication and Information Engineering from Liaoning University of Technology in China, says he found passion in farming.