Demand for avocados in Europe and Asia has seen a rise in the number of Kenyan farmers and exporters.Demand for avocados in Europe and Asia has seen a rise in the number of Kenyan farmers and exporters.
Mary Gitau walks through her farm in Central Kenya. She combs through her avocado trees with a sense of despair. Without money to employ people to watch over her crop, she patrols the farm with the machete in hand hoping to keep away the marauding avocado thieves. “When we were planting these trees, we knew they would benefit us in old age because now nobody can employ somebody like me, but I have not gained anything, especially during this harvest period.”Murang’a county is Kenya’s top producer of avocados and farmers like Mary are now uprooting other cash crops like coffee and tea to plant avocados also known as the Green Gold., health and wellness experts now call it a super fruit.
Last year, the East African nation overtook South Africa to become Africa’s top exporter of avocados.So, to reap these benefits, farmers are employing unorthodox methods to protect their crops; they are employing vigilantes that roam the farms 24 hours 7 days a week to ensure no theft takes place in the farms. Martin Muriri is one such farmer.
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Happy to be one of the avocado farmers. A video of my farm
Because in SA they run the farms in to the ground because they think soil tastes better than food. 7 Farms in Limpopo province not producing anything anymore because they wanted the land.
Our problem is 👇👇👇👇👇
Good Kenya keep it up.
So?
Kenya has no natural resources like oil and minerals, but we are heading to the top
From Kenya to the world
Ngoba siholwa amadidi...