When Judith graduated from university with a commerce degree, she expected to land a job in a bank or with one of the many financial institutions in Kenya. However, two years down the road, she was still looking for a job and living with her relatives in the city. A few months ago, she decided to try her hand at farming.
In the first season, most of her tomato crop died due to a disease attack. Despite agriculture being the single largest source of income for rural Africans and contributing to a quarter of the continent’s gross domestic product, Judith struggled to find the technical information to make farming work. She eventually joined a WhatsApp group where young farmers were connecting with each other and sharing information. It is in this group that she told her story a few days ago.
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