Hand to mouth: Why profit eludes small-scale farmers

A farmer watering vegetable leaves in a farmland. 

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An acquaintance recently told me how, out of passion and desire to do good, he took up small-scale farming project in Migori County, Southern Nyanza region.

As happens with initiatives driven by sentiment rather than profit, he neither thought through it nor wrote a business plan before the plunge. What he did was to engage local labour to clear about one acre of his land, all the time visualising in his mind this tantalising, beautiful crop of maize and beans.

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