Aston Lukoye
No one can say no when God says yes. Margaret Njenga’s story is more inspiring. Consider putting your professional career at risk to venture into something new for which you have never attended a single class and paid no school fees.
The former teacher was forced to resign from her teaching position without knowing the outcome of her decision to focus solely on farming. A call that she says she will never regret taking in her life but instead will thank God for guiding her to success.
About Margaret Njenga
Margaret Njenga is a graduate of St. John’s Teachers Training College in Kilimambogo. Her county of residence is Kiserian Kajiado. An area that is ideal for farming.
After working as a teacher for a while, Margaret was already thinking ahead until the COVID pandemic hit the world in 2020. Due to the closure of the schools, Margaret chose the decision to find a backup plan to deal with the high cost of living by returning to Kiserian, where her parents reside, to starting a new chapter in her life.
She took a risk and invested her savings of 200,000 Kenya shillings in her preferred field of farming.
Margaret tried her hand at onion farming, which she claims has higher returns than other crops. She began with a half-acre plot of land on which she invested 200,000 Kenya shillings.
The money was spent on installing drip lines, preparing the farm, and purchasing seeds.
Following a successful first season, Margaret Njenga expanded her business to a full one-acre plot of land, investing an additional 270 Kenya shillings.
According to her, she learned as a farmer that she would occasionally become frustrated with low yields due to several heartbreaks of diseases and pest that might interfere with in the future. And opted for mixed farming with the little she had generated from onion farming.
Cabbage, spinach, collard, tomatoes, beetroots, and lucerne for her dairy cows were among the crops she chose.
Along with crop farming, she also raises dairy cows, goats, chickens, ornamental birds, and rabbits
Margaret has reaped enormous rewards from all of these, making her never to regret her choice.
Challenges faced in Farming.
According to her, challenges and losses are an inevitable part of any business’s success.
Margaret and other farmers face a variety of challenges, including high seed prices, fluctuating market prices, and high electricity costs, particularly for farmers like her who rely on power to pump water.
Among the other struggles is the high cost of fertilizer. Although she does not use fertilizer most of the time because she prefers manure, which she collects from animal waste and occasionally from Neighbours.
Conclusion
The risks have taught him that success is all about trying, just as she did when she jeopardized her career to practice farming which has earned her a fortune.
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