The Millionaire Farmer
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- čas přidán 15. 05. 2013
- Cultural beliefs in some communities have always been a barrier especially when it comes to the issue of women owning land specifically through inheritance which hampers their capacity to be economically active. However, this has not been a hinderance for Martha Otieno from Homabay County who is reaping big from farming by working around that CULTURAL norm to acquire land of her own. But how is it possible for a woman in her twenties and from a community not known for farming earn so much millions in a short period and more so through agriculture?
Very impressive entrepreneurial spirit, going boldly against cultural norms as well! Having lived and worked in Homa Bay for > 6 years I understand the risky nature of farming there.
the best thing to do in life is to grow food
Bernice Burgess
Inspirational stuff. thumbs up young lady. South African
Good reporting from this TV station. Many African youths need to see such report so we don't sit and wait for governments to give us jobs. The corrupt governments can't do that
Tonny True. What pisses me off about Africa is a HUGE territory of land being used just to "preserve" lions and other animals. Guess what? Lions don't bring NOTHING to our lives. They are killing machines who need plenty of land to keep alive. Imagine if all that land was used to farm, Africa would be damn rich!!!! I don't mind lions and alligators being extinct, FUCK them! They will not think twice about eating you alive.
FeelingShred We actually have plenty of arable land besides the game reserves that can be used for agriculture . The problem our school system produces young people who despise farming leaving most of the farming to old people who do subsistence farming. We need such stories so that young people can settle and farm instead of walking the streets looking for 'respectable' jobs!
+FeelingShred Except lions and alligators are at the top of their food chains. If they go extinct, their food web structure will be completely fucked.
Tonny Okello I agree with you. Farming is not seen as 'sexy' by the youth. Not only does tje schooling system not promote it, but our youth are also taught to look for jobs after school instead of creating their own jobs...
Tonny
Go to the USA brcause they give out free checks and health care and dental care and housing and food etc....
Plus you can rob people if they have something you want because they give you free lawyers too.
Then claim racism and everyone will be scared to send you to jail.
Everything better in America, America. Everything better in America America....America.
Thanks Martha for sharing with us your knowledge sister
I love this black girl she is not trying to get brown and she is making it as a black woman in Africa big up my sister.
Jason Theodore idk if I were completely African or black I wouldn't like being called a black girl but I'm mixed with different races like white,african,japenese and more stuff but I know u meant no offense to that
Jason Theodore she’s not black lol she’s brown. No one is complete of black pigmentation that’s just stupid to say.
@@texanboiii562 mwambie
what has that got to do with anything being discussed in this video???
@@texanboiii562 I am black
This makes me so proud to be Kenyan. What an inspiration to all of us.
Nothing gives me more pleasure than to see a young person create an idea and succeed.Martha,you're truly an inspiration and a beacon of hope for our youth. And just like your namesake in the Bible,don't be destructed or worry about small things.Instead,serve and feed the people.
Love this! Such a humble, beautiful, inspiring young lady. In the midst of planning my move back home, I would like to venture into farming in Naivasha.
Kenya is incredibly rich in resources, and it's time we tapped into this as opposed to relying on scarce white collar jobs!
Am also considering this
Thanks Martha for the good work you are doing. We will share your story with young women in Elgeyo Marakwet County. May God bless you because you are an inspiration to many.
I am very inspired but her story. Right now Homestead Urban Farming is a Vision that has captivated My Heart . Feeding my family with fresh healthy food from the garden is my Passion I have a Kitchen Herb Garden and an Edible Food Landscape Garden around my house. Every year more vegetables and fruits, herbs , flowers, bushes, roots and trees are added .
Wow....Africa, totally amazing region of the world. Creative ideas, do pay off in all areas of organic farming. All the very Best to you guys. Here's wishing you Good Health, Happiness, Love, Joy, Freedom & Peace, always...congrats.
You bet yah! If only wise business people would properly invest in organic farming, they could do wonders & make a lot of fortune too!
Hello Yusuf, it's true Organic farming is slowly evolving into a niche market, with farmers around the world reaping the benefits for offering such produce into the market place. Being innovative within organic production, will be most helpful in establishing oneself within this lucrative market, for the good of everybody. Ask & you will receive, the truth. With thanks, Peace my friend.
Nick Scott BABY ORGANIC BEETROOT NEWEST TREND,.
for high class restraunts and jusicing,,
Nick Scott hi nick, did u ever grow freshwater prawns,,tks
What a girl! Beautiful and intelligent!
that's right
I was like whose that😍😛
Evan Thomas
It's Martha... Listen to the video.
You go girl!
Peter H ,it's God's blessings watu wa some nayeye..
You are bless Martha Atieno
Well done Martha! You got up and faced obstacles and did something wonderful with your life. You are an excellent example to teach the rest of us that it can be done
i did not just watch this i download it so everytime i can look at it,it so informative and inspire me alot
Stephene Muya how do you download from you tube please
she is happyly sister! her hard working n good open heart gives strength to mothers, ladies n gals.
Daisy Daniel hy
Well done Martha. I love this big girl in you. You have made my heart proud.
Love this women she is intelligent an beautiful an I hope the best for her an her family. Looks like she has a green thumb. I’ve been waiting so long to see Africans that there whole life of being oppressed now are rich an successful
I am based in Lagos, Nigeria and would like to make a suggestion to the Smart Farm Crew. Please try to subtitle your programs in English Language since you have some viewers outside of kenya that do not speak swahili or any kenyan language. Thanks for the great job you are doing
helow
nigeria tv wants to be FULLY SUBTITLES,.
Wonderful... Keep it up!!!
Uhunye na brada Wameharibu soko
Good work! Brilliant! Awesome as youths should learn from this!!
Farming is also a sector we can venture in and succeed!!
Good Job and keep it up! Nothing really takes the place of persistence.
Good job Martha, l love farming, from Zimbabwe #
I’m Montagnard I’m a farmer I watch you video never get bored.
Wao, I salute you young lady!
wow.. i admire you girl. That is so good and inspiring. I love agric, grew up in a farm and did all the farm routines and its quite enjoyable. Keep it up and i wish you the best.
You are an inspiration to many young people Martha.God bless you.
I'm so inspired ... I'm currently working in the coprate. I've managed to raise 20 000 and want to start farming chickens.
I'm so proud of you
MABUHAY KA FROM PHILIPPINES, LOVE FARMING
Hi! How can i get in touch with Martha? She inspired me bit how comes this interview is short? Please give our farmers proper interviews just like the ones you give to celebrities.
well said..
+Betty Yoland Well said.
wow you have put it well
Thank you giys
Betty Yoland
You said well well said you said.
a very good example in the society... kindly show me the way
wow...congratulation girl ..god bless
Blessings from Papua New Guinea. You gave up your journalism background and you sacrificed initial 40gran. For a young lady like you to have that spirit to do that, it must be determination. Love your energy, you will go miles. And I am impressed by your foresights. Martha, you can never go wrong when you are in agriculture business. Everyone lives to eat everyday, so you WILL make money everyday. Good on you girl. .
Its inspiring to see a young lady farmer do so well.
we need this lady to come and live with us in riftvalley,our farms are fertile and i think we need to intermarry if you are still available we say welcome........a very bright young lady success is for people like her
Good job Martha, very inspiring.
What an inspiration! Good job Martha!!
Well Done! Congrats!
I lyk & am encouraged
I am very proud of you. May God bless the works of your hands. I promise to pray for you.
Very inspiring Martha........
I miss home. Good inspiring work Martha
i love this, cool inspiration for me.
Great work Martha.
What a fantastic work she's doing in young age .good luck .
very brilliant.
I will marry you Martha. Im always been a poor farmer too.
Good job Martha! Your are an inspiration and the kind of person who will develop Kenya as or stupid MP's fight over more money even though we are yet to see results, we truly need more young people like you to make farming appear "cool" to the young. GREAT JOB!!!!
Happy for you! Praise Yah!
Yess
Well done go on, wish you more success.👍
Great job, Love you
Brilliant young lady, the sort kenya needs to sustain its food security, who needs the Israeli? The lady has proved it can be done..sasa serikal kazi kwenyu..
Keep up the good work Martha
From Madrid, Spain,I support you my dear. Go on
Good works.Congratulation!
Humility is her trademark
GO GO GO Martha, U'r my college mate though u were some years behind me @ Saint Augustine University of Tanzania( SAUT), but i can guess now u'r capable of employing me. Iam proud she has made it. I remember in those good old days we w're taught Entrepreneurship @ SAUT she
Bless you - all the best to you. Its great to see a female farmer and to see the young Africans farming after education.
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Welcome
+ELIAKIM Joseph Sophia,
I live in Ontario Canada and enjoy gardening at my little backyard during the short summer months. I grow some of my produce in pots and some directly in the ground. I plant almost everything and grow potatoes with peelings that really turns out well. I mostly harvest abundance of tomatoes, peppers, shallots, butter nut squash, string beans in yellow, green, purple, sweet peas, spinach, Kyle, swiss chard including bell peppers, sweet banana peppers, hot peppers in different varieties including herbs. Cucumbers and a whole lot more. I give away so much to neighbors and friends at work and still able to freeze lots of tomatoes to use through the winter months till early spring. Just love to garden and wish to have a nice greenhouse I could garden through the winter months. Would be great to live at a warmer location where I could garden all year long. It is incredibly amazing what one little tiny seed to grow into. Would love to do something like what this brilliant lady is doing. My tomatoes mostly reseeds from droppings in the garden and do come back each year in late spring. I planted 6 seeds of Aspergers last summer and by fall I had over 20 Asperger plants growing together. What I didn't know was that, it really spreads and multiplies and also comes back each year as it is considered a perennial plant but could only harvest withing two years. It takes time for it to grow think Aspergers. Gardening is therapeutic and stress relieving I enjoy it with all my heart.
I really believe that we should farm and garden here in America everywhere and trade the fruits and vegetables with one another with what we don't have and with what they have and Plant along the highways no one would ever go hungry then it should also be tax deductible when we plant fruit vegetables lentils wheat barley any kind of food source and don't forget billions and billions and billions of land of flowers for the honey bees
I live in NC before every planting season we get up with all the people in the community to see what everybody is planting.Then when harvest time comes around we all trade
Christopher d please tell me what County do you live in? I would like to buy land in NC and research more about farming.
Way to go girl..keep doing your thing!
A strong black woman
Lol she's not black
Hi honey I love what u have done. Great work.. I have a farm in Ireland xx
Fantastic!!
I would like to see her progress seven years later... anyone who knows her whereabouts??
truly inspiring.
Keep it up gal, you have motivated me.
Martha your are truly a true, wise african lady. i admire you.
Agriculture is the back bone of every development of a nation
does she have a website.. blessings to you my sista!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍
Its 9 years later, please do a follow up on this story, what is she doing in life now ? I think many would be interested...
while the young Kenyans are waiting for an office job, smart Martha is making millions. Keep it up.
Martha Otieno Is the kind of leader the people of Homa Bay should learn from . If most people could do this the place would develop .
I like it. Good job
Hello from Norway, I would love to visit your farm.
well you are welcome anytime
hei har du det bra
hellen w i would like to visit her farm too
Jeyrose Syleswaran never
WHERE IS IT,..,.,.,.
this girl inspired mi
Good stuff here
Am going agriculture too so that I must be aired too
powerful, an inpiration!
Where does one get clients when one is doing farming ?? Thank you for answer !
Wow! Martha if you're reading this kindly get in touch. I really need your help concerning farming.
Thanks in advance
Good job Atoti..
Great content!☺️
that's interesting and encouraging
she is quite an inspirational to those who think you must have land to farm regardless of age so long you have ideas you can make it
we all have talents lets explore them
i wish we can be friends. I am into Green Village fish and vegetable farming in Ghana and wants to encourage more graduates to join me. beautiful message .
Good advise
Someday you will see me rich because of farming
you go young queen.
Dream and achieve it,, bless up black woman
This lady is more useful than some ladies on my Instagram
hi, may citizen email me her contacts and how we could do farming in homabay county
.Kind-of Goldie BBA look alike before stardom....Congrats Martha & may the Lord bless the work of your hands
Very inspiring indeed from my home county, how can we get her contacts to mentor us. Great keep it up.
thanks for beating out the odds
Inspiring
how can I get in touch with these folks; I want to embark on large scale farming. somebody let me know.
Hardwork pays
Fly sky high sister..Wish you good luck......
good job siz