Fish farming brightens Nakuru man's sunset years

Stephen Karanja feeds his ?sh. ABOVE: Karanja tends his tomatoes. [PHOTOS: BONIFACE THUKU/STANDARD]

NAKURU, KENYA: At 69, Stephen Karanja would ordinarily be sitting on a stool basking in the sun like many men his age across the country. But Karanja has refused to sit idle and has instead ventured into farming and now supplies vegetables and fish to villagers in Mugumo village, Nakuru County.

What has interested him most is fish farming. He has six fish ponds each with 1,000 fish and the old man expects to earn not less than Sh500,000 by the end of the year.