conservation farming

John is a full time small scale farmer from Esikulu village.For the past  ten  years  he was used to farming the conventional way with  chemical fertilizers  and pesticides.Then four years ago  at the age  of 40 years  a friend gave him an issue of the organic farmer  magazine. After reading it carefully, he  immediately decided to change  to organic  farming  as he realized  that it would  be much  healthier  for him  and his  family  morover , he understood that  he would  save  alot of money if he used composed instead of chemical fertilizers.

Location: ESIKULU, BUSIA, KENYA