Meru Farmer Makes Over KSh 2m per Acre from Dragon Fruits
Anthony Kinoti is the brains behind Gravity Farm in Meru county. He grows over 40,000 dragon fruit stems and earns up to KSh 2.2 million per acre.
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Anthony Kinoti is the brains behind Gravity Farm in Meru county. He grows over 40,000 dragon fruit stems and earns up to KSh 2.2 million per acre.
“We have done cocoa farming as part of climate change mitigation. The cocoa tree can be a very good agroforestry crop.
FARMKENYA INITIATIVE Sometime in 2013, Anthony Kinoti was offered a strange fruit to eat by a Chinese friend. “Dragon fruit was sweet and soft. I had never seen nor tasted such a sweet fruit. It was amazing. It melted in the mouth like ice cream. I wanted to know more about it. Later, I did research on it and discovered more positive attributes,” he says. That time, his friend also gave him the seeds which were like tiny pebbles and he planted them at his farm in Kathuure, Meru County. He planted them on a small corner and forgot about them. Almost two years on, they started sprouting fr...