Ms Anne Awino displays a pineapple fruit at her 5 acre farm in Awendo, Migori county. Her passion for the fruits came as a coincidence during her visit to Tanzania in 2009. PHOTO/JACOB OWITI
What you need to know:
It is in Tanzania where she noticed an interesting scenario — buyers fighting to buy a few pineapples brought to the market by two Kenyan traders.
In 2010 they embarked on pineapple farming on their five-acre farm that had remained fallow for close to a decade.
Already, the couple has planted 10,000 pineapples since 2010 and they expect to increase the acreage to 60,000 plants in the next two years.
The high demand for pineapples in Tanzania lured Anne Awino and her husband into producing the fruit which is rarely grown in Migori.
Her passion for the fruits came as a coincidence during her visit to Tanzania in 2009.
