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Passion fruit farmer spills out secrets to profitable venture
Alice Rono (in white sweater) tends to her passion fruits on her farm in Moiben Sub-County, in Uasin Gishu County. The farmer depends on water from a well. PHOTO | DENNIS LUBANGA | NMG
Moiben Sub–County in Uasin Gishu is a renowned maize and wheat farming belt, but Alice Rono avoided the region’s traditional crops for passion fruit. She has now been farming the crop for the last 20 years.
Ms Rono, a mother of three, started growing the fruits in 1997, on a small piece land as experiment.
