The smell of manure and feed might not be everyone's cup of tea but for Mzee Samuel Chepkwony, the scent of opportunity drew him to seek early retirement from his full-time job as a school bus driver to focus on his passion for pig farming.
Chepkwony, 55, a resident of Asenwet village within Kipsistet area in Soin/Sigowet Sub-County within Kericho County now working full-time on his farm started on his lucrative pig farming venture some eight years ago while still working as a school bus operator at Kipsigis Girls High School in Kericho but opted to seek early retirement last year to pursue his passion in pig farming.
A visit to his pig farm shows a farmer who has a passion for pig farming.
Chepkwony's pig farm houses around three full grown female pigs and 42 piglets housed in a wooden pigsty made of wooden planks and mabati walls with saw dust littered in four compartments for comfort and cleanliness and two feeding areas located outside the wooden structure. The pigsty, measuring four by six feet, is located directly opposite his stone brick house situated on two and a half acres of land. He revealed that his desire to start a pig farm venture started in 2017 when he came across the school's kitchen waste prompting him to approach the school's administration with a proposal that the learning institution embark on setting up a pig farm to reuse the kitchen waste as feeds for the swines.
