With no city jobs, tech-savvy youth opt for farming

Farmer holding a tree seedling

When Francis Njoroge graduated with an engineering degree in Nairobi, he expected a six-figure salary. Instead, he found himself working as an electrician on a three-month contract, for Sh20,000 a month.

Realising permanent and well-paid jobs were hard to come by in Nairobi, he moved back to his parents’ farm in Kimandi, a village about 150km away, and start his own business planting and selling tree seedlings.