Driven by his passion for agriculture, Mr Macharia ventured into farming after fully paying for the land and relocating his family there in 2014.
By
Sammy Waweru
Contributor
Nation Media Group
When a prolonged drought wiped out his crops, Kennedy Macharia faced a choice familiar to many farmers in Kenya's drylands: keep gambling on unreliable rains or find a crop that could survive without them. He chose the latter.
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