Good returns for orchard and fruit tree nursery farmer

Jesse Wahome Kioria and his wife Kesiah Wahome tend to passion fruits. INSET: AVocado plants at their farm in Tetu, Nyeri.

Many farmers have been planting traditional cash crops such as coffee and tea and use any remaining part of their farms to grow subsistence crops.

But Jesse Wahome Kioria, from Kiamutiga Sub location in Tetu, Nyeri County, has decided to try his hand in something else. Kioria is turning his farm into an orchard and has a fruit tree nursery.