THE AGROPRENEUR: David Rotich, 31 making a steady income from his small greenhouse farm

Seedlings are David Rotich’s livelihood.

The father of two studied animal health but found crop health better paying after trying to grow quality seedlings.

He has created two jobs by using just a 15-by-8-metre parcel of his father’s land, where he has put up a greenhouse for seedlings.

He specialises in tomatoes, cabbage and capsicum. He set up the nursery only in March this year, and his first crop of 45,000 seedlings gave him a Sh25,000 profit after a month.

He expects to get 70,000 seedlings by the end of the year, and he projects a Sh180,000 profit. Capacity-building by the USAid-funded Kenya Horticultural Competitiveness Project has broadened his thinking.

“I am applying the best practices, guided by experts,” he says.