Market rejection forced farmer to think ice pops

Larry Keya, a capsicum farmer who also makes capsicum popsicles in Uasin Gishu.

Though promising, farming is a journey full of roses and thorns. When you start the walk, you have high hopes and expectations but along the way you realise without creativity and grit, nothing good may come out of it.

Like for most farmers, that is the story of one Larry Keya a graduate of Agriculture Economics from Moi University who ventured into cucumber farming with gusto but got a baptism by fire before he broke even.