When 16-year-old Mercy Mmboga joined high school in Kibera, she was set on becoming a doctor. That was until she learned a 'new technology' of growing vegetables and leafy greens without soil-hydroponics.
She had a new dream of becoming a farmer. "I was amazed," she said standing next to a row of spinach sprouting out of old yogurt containers in a recycled drainpipe at Olympic Secondary School.
Mmboga had never seen this type of farming. "They are planting crops without using soil? I had never seen this in my life. I was very impressed with this. When I grow up, I want to be a farmer."
Hydroponics is a farming technique that allows plants to grow in a water-based nutrient solution, which uses up to 90 percent less water and 75 percent less space while producing crops twice as quickly as traditional agriculture.
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