PREMIUM Meru youth turn to farming and thrive 'I made and held my first Sh100,000 in August last year — proceeds from farming. It was a great feeling. I didn’t sleep for two days.' Seeds of Gold 46 min ago Listen

He has been farming for two years and is currently tending to his half-acre cabbage farm – his first attempt at cabbages.“I made and held my first Sh100,000 in August last year – proceeds from farming,” he says.

She got more than double the amount in her second harvest – an amount she used to buy two heifers, build a two-roomed simple house for her mother, a kitchen and settle her siblings’ school fees.