Cattle herders enjoy sweetness of cane farming

Charles Saiwa (left) with Philemon Ole Saiwa at their sugarcane farm at Kiptagich in Kilgoris ,Narok county on October 6,2018. [Kipsang Joseph/Standard]

When Lenteyion Magiro, 48, was born, his father’s main occupation was herding family cattle in the expansive Enoosaen group ranch in Trans Mara.

Then, unlike now, the grazing area was not limited because the group ranch and those neighbouring it had not been subdivided.