arrowroot

With the recent headlines of skyrocketing prices of maize flour and an entire sack of irish potatoes selling at the price of two plates of chips, it is increasingly becoming imperative for for farmers and consumers to rethink of other options. Margaret Achieng, a farmer and a trader says this has enabled her to improve […]

Dressed in a black overcoat, Kenneth Mutwiri digs the soil around an arrowroot plant using a machete to loosen it. He then uproots the plant, revealing a tuber weighing about a kilo. The farmer, 29, switched from maize and cabbage farming to arrowroots in search of higher profits. “I grow the upland variety of the