We find him using a sprayer pump to water the mushroom crop that he has planted on shelves and polythene bags. They visited two farmers to learn the practical aspect of mushroom farming and its profitability. We managed to raise money to enable each one of us start their individual farms, but we have still retained the joint farm,” Mukirai says. He is attending to his mushroom crop which is currently at the incubation stage. But its not all rosy, mushroom farming has challenges, with the main one being that the crops sometimes are attracted by flies or rodents.

Source: Daily Nation April 20, 2018 17:15 UTC