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Private school transforms into farm to beat corona crisis
Aug 5, 2020
James Kung’u enters a classroom to be met by a cackle of mature chicken, which scurries away from their feeding troughs as he approaches to pick one.
If that was before the coronavirus pandemic, the classroom at Roka School in Mwea, Kirinyaga County, would have been full of pupils with teachers going about their work.
However, when the pandemic hit the country and President Uhuru Kenyatta ordered that all learning institutions be closed, Mr Kung’u who is the school proprietor resolved to transform it into a farm as he did not anticipate schools to reopen until the next year.
“Poultry farming is involving but also very interesting. It was fulfilling to enter a classroom and teach children. It is equally satisfying to find the classroom occupied by healthy chicken,” Kung’u says.
Apart from the classrooms hosting 900 rainbow chicken of various ages, the school field has now been transformed into a farm with blossoming spinach and sukuma wiki.
Other crops the school is producing are lettuce, tomatoes, onions, capsicum, maize and carrots.
Kung’u has engaged the school’s teachers and other staff who are working in the farm and marketing the produce instead of sending them out of job.
Kung’u used to be a teacher in a public school and started Roka upon his retirement in 1998.
When we toured the farm yesterday, Kung’u and the staff were harvesting vegetables for sale.
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