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23-year-old Maxwell Tom Oyoo from Kabianga University, Western Kenya has taken the farming game very seriously. The guy was studying Economics, then he found himself watching a YouTube video about how farm waste can be turned into something useful. From there, his life changed.
Now Maxwell is an environmentalist, a real activist. He makes pots for planting seedlings from pineapple peels. Most people see the peels as trash, but he sees them as gold. He goes to the market, collects the peels, dries them, grinds them, then mixes them with cornstarch – boom, it becomes a clay-like mix. He molds the pots, they sell for fifty bob for small and soo for large.
The cool thing is that the pots don't need to be removed when planting. You just hit them with the seedlings in the field, then after three weeks they dissolve and become fertilizer. No plastic pollution, no stress. It's completely eco-friendly.
The journey was not easy, the first attempts were bursting in the sun. But the guy didn't give up, he balanced the ratio of starch and husks, now the pots are strong and last until the seedlings go to the field.
In addition to the pots, he and his friends make juice, jam and syrup from pineapple. This innovation has taken him to the big exhibition in Nairobi KICC, and the guy believes that when he finishes school he will enter this hustle full-time.
Maxwell is proof that farming is not boring, it is a meaningful business.
23-year-old Maxwell Tom Oyoo from Kabianga University, Western Kenya has taken the farming game very seriously. The guy was studying Economics, then he found himself watching a YouTube video about how farm waste can be turned into something useful. From there, his life changed.
Now Maxwell is an environmentalist, a real activist. He makes pots for planting seedlings from pineapple peels. Most people see the peels as trash, but he sees them as gold. He goes to the market, collects the peels, dries them, grinds them, then mixes them with cornstarch – boom, it becomes a clay-like mix. He molds the pots, they sell for fifty bob for small and soo for large.
The cool thing is that the pots don't need to be removed when planting. You just hit them with the seedlings in the field, then after three weeks they dissolve and become fertilizer. No plastic pollution, no stress. It's completely eco-friendly.
The journey was not easy, the first attempts were bursting in the sun. But the guy didn't give up, he balanced the ratio of starch and husks, now the pots are strong and last until the seedlings go to the field.
In addition to the pots, he and his friends make juice, jam and syrup from pineapple. This innovation has taken him to the big exhibition in Nairobi KICC, and the guy believes that when he finishes school he will enter this hustle full-time.
Maxwell is proof that farming is not boring, it is a meaningful business.