Teresia Mathenge attended the BDS training with a hope to gain skills that would mold her to a better entrepreneur. Though her interest was not in entrepreneurship, she realized that she could utilize the idle family land to grow onions.

“I had always thought about starting a business but not in line with agriculture. However, after attending the four days BDS training organized by Aayden Consulting, I gained skills that helped me to turn part of our idle land into an income-generating project. Using Ksh.50,000 that comprised of my savings and a grant from KYEOP, I started onion farming in a half-acre land. My total expenditure for the first season was Ksh.55,000 that included, seeds, labour and pesticides. I harvested four tonnes that I sold at a total of Ksh.160,000 making a net profit of Ksh.105,000 within a period of five months. Good record-keeping skills helped me to track my expenses. My vision is to expand to two acres by 2022 and above five acres thereafter.”