Sisal farming restores hope to arid Tharaka

Agnes Wanja (left) and Mary Gakii attend to a sisal farm in Kithangani area Tharaka-Nithi County. The crop has boosted the area’s economy. (Muthengi Muthomi Standard)

Kithangani village, a semiarid area in Chuka Sub County, Tharaka-Nithi County is little known and people believe that it has little to o­ffer in the agriculture sector.

Most farms in Kithangani are usually bare unless during rainy season when the area receives little showers that enables growth of sorghum save for the few farmers who embraced sisal farming eight years ago who are now smiling all the way to the bank.