Kenya: New Farming Method Brings Cheer and Cash

[Nation] Four years ago, Peris Wamaitha was a distraught farmer, only managing a meagre two bags of maize from her one-and-half acre piece of land. Located on a steep slope in Kaithe, about nine kilometres from Meru town on the Maua road, the once unproductive land now yields up to 15 bags of maize on half an acre, thanks to conservation agriculture.