Residents should take part in this climate-smart crop farming,” she says. FAO rolled out the project to support mushroom farming in the county as an alternative cash crop to boost farmers’ earnings and alleviate poverty. Mushroom is a good source of wealth since a kilo of dry mushroom fetch between Sh400-Sh600 in the market. Besides providing technical training to the farmers, farming equipment and seedlings for the crop, the organisation is also helping farmers to identify ready markets for the crop. The women are optimistic that mushroom farming will increase their income saying maize harvesting has been very poor for the last three years.

Source: Daily Nation January 08, 2019 14:37 UTC