Our farm produces energy, not crops

Francis Nyamaramba's solar farm in Miwani. [Courtesy]

For Francis Nyamaramba and his family, light was a precious and scarce commodity, provided only by a single, weak light.

"I had only one lamp which was to serve the whole house from the kitchen to the sitting room. When the lamp is used in the kitchen, the sitting room becomes very dark, this negatively limited us," he recalls, adding that one could easily get injured when moving from one room to another and reading at night was also difficult.