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Want to be a farmer? Bin your phone, buy gumboots, and get used to mud

It is human to want to make an extra dime. Such money is even sweeter when it easily from the toughest source of riches: the soil.

More so, if all it took for the money to reach you was just a few calls and text messages to a compliant shamba boy. Once spurred, the shamba boy dutifully carried out your instructions to the letter: buying seeds and fertilizer, breaking his back readying the land for planting season. All while you sit and wait for results from the comfort of your home in the city.

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