What you need to know:

Four weeks of daily watering, adding nutrients and ensuring adequate warmth, guarantees good growth for most of the seedlings, especially for short cycle crops like vegetables and tomatoes

Carolyne, the 2019 winner of the Best Youth in Agriculture category in the Farmers Award Scheme run by the Ministry of Agriculture and agro-inputs firm Elgon Kenya, grows vegetables, herbs and fruit seedlings. 

The scheme, now in its 8th edition  is aimed at celebrating outstanding farmers and the role they play in food production and agribusiness development.

Tomato seedlings account for 60 per cent of her agribusiness. However, she also propagates collard greens, spinach, cabbage, sweet potatoes, beetroots, eggplants, capsicum, lettuce, peppers, broccoli and cauliflower seedlings.

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