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The dragon fruit bet now a big success on a quarter-acre dry land
Kran Farm owner and dragon fruit farmer Kennedy Macharia speaks to the media at his farm in the Joska/Kamulu area on the outskirts of Nairobi on June 22, 2026. Macharia is among Kenyan farmers embracing the cultivation of the high-value crop.
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.
Today, the former construction worker harvests up to 400 kilogrammes of dragon fruit every month from a quarter-acre in Joska, Machakos County, proving that even in one of the region's driest areas, the right crop can turn adversity into profit.
