PEPINO MELONS!
So many farmers in nyeri and central rushed to plant the fruits terming it as a wonder fruit that cures all diseases and after buying the seedlings at exorbitant prices and being promise high market prices for the fruits, have now resulted to selling at throw away prices to recover part of their loses as the bubble is slowly busting. At its peak a seedling was going for Ksh200 but now its ksh 10 at its lowest… A kilo of pepino friut peaked @ Ksh 500 but its now at Ksh 40. [ATTACH=full]60772[/ATTACH]
“Several farmers in Nyeri have taken to growing pepino as demand due to its ‘healing powers’ increases. Kingori Maenia, a farmer from Gaithairi Tetu Nyeri, who has planted over 300 pepino plants says he got the seedlings from a farmer in Kinagop.
“I sell the fruit to traders in markets in Nyeri and the demand is going up.”
John Wambugu, an agronomist at the Wambugu Farm Agricultural Centre in Nyeri, who also grows the plants out of curiosity, says the ‘super healing power’ of the melon is yet be scientifically proven.
“Because it is a fruit and fruits contains vitamins it’s possible that it has the capacity to heal.”
He adds that fruits that contain Vitamin A, B, C and K helps in boosting immunity and healing diseases.”
The fruit…
(Notice Its similarity to a tree tomato fruit…
Tamarillo)
upuss ya MLM…kuna dem alinidanganya niende a business meeting pale trinity center…kumbe ni hio upuss ilikua inaendelea. I felt cheated listening to that scrap for whole hour. juzi i met the lady akanishow pia yeye alilemewa na hio kazi ya kutafuta watu.
Kenyans are probably the least creative of entrepreneurs. Kitu moja ikitokea kila mtu anairukia ruku…Sasa we’re waiting to see how this business ya slot machine za chinku itaisha. I predict haitaisha poa. Chinku has a hidden card up his sleeve.
My mum really forced to do this Tianshi thing in 2003 when i was unemployed but we made few bucks b4 apathy came in.Siku hizi mathe ni mjanja ask her about hii sijui MLM kama hii ya sijui free ticket ya kufly sijui USA she will lenga u vibaya sana.Na betting falls in which category? pyramid scheme?
They actually are pyramid schemes, the first guys in make good money providing seeds/seedling to the late comers, but the moment it hits saturation the pyramid collapses