 You can live in this world naked naked and you are good but you are living but imagine you are wearing clothes but you have no food to eat Agriculture means farmers of definitions and being farmers you are feeding the whole world I will call the whole world because every corner they have to eat so who is supposed to be very rich and not have these poverty issues is the farmers but look at what is there when you talk of a farmer you think of that poor person that you will come to the farm why should I come no come to the city come to the farm and when you come and you are like are you a farmer is that another farmer that have done this yes and I am proud of this and this is why I want to change farmers we are the best person or the best people in this world feeding the nation if someone ever told me that apples grows in Africa I would definitely not believe it but there is this woman out here in Kenya who is making the impossible possible Kate Wambugo the ambassador of Wambugo Apples I am a farmer and the farming that I am doing is Wambugo Apples here in Kenya and specifically like Kipia County we call it the county of Wanda but this is a woman born and raised in Africa making the impossible possible so we grew up we could see my father doing this it is what we saw my father doing and it really inspired us and before he started the apples the life was not good I am telling you he would struggle even to raise eating was a problem but right now we are somewhere we can say we are somewhere and this is where I want every farmer to be even higher Farmers of today raise V8 man I thought V8 were for politicians man are you a politician? No no I am a pure farmer pure farmer so this is where we do we have been doing a lot of apples here in Wai Kipia and we enjoy selling to other Kenyans because we are doing it locally so grateful that even Kenyans have embraced this which an apple that can do everywhere, every soil, every climate I can't even express how I feel right now I feel like crying you know I'm eating an apple made and produced in Africa by an African that indeed changing that narrative and I want you all to share this video right now can I ask you a question did you know that it's possible to grow apples in Africa don't lie to me let me know that in the comment section but before I dive into this video apple inspired your hair yes now you see the color I have to maintain here is a signature the apple ambassador when you see me that's the apple ambassador apple farmer do you know that you've done something that so many Africans think it's impossible how does that make you feel it feels nice that is one and I feel excited I've been the ambassador of Ambuco apples and I feel good seeing even you all the way you took a flight to come and crunch see how you are closing your eyes so it's amazing and I feel humbled to even mentor some farmers who didn't know that apples can do in Africa and especially here in Kenya West Africa so my question is do apple do you think apple can grow anywhere in Africa apples are growing right now the people have mentored they are growing in Africa so it is possible and it is 100% plus impossible why is it that we are told that apples don't grow in Africa then I have no idea but you have proven this wrong you can see them you are holding the apple this one is here I am not just holding you are eating talk of South Africa part of Botswana Mozambia, Namibia, Malawi Mozambique so they are growing they have fruits already go to Sierra Leone go to Gambia Ghana, Nigeria so this is a part of Africans so apple can do in Africa so what do apple need I mean what environment or conditions do apple need to survive in Africa then the most important thing for the apples is what you are feeding it because once you feed it is okay Botswana and Namibia they have sandy swell the swell people believe it can't grow anything but they are growing they only need manure and ensure that water length is done this part of Kenya no one would believe that apple can do but you have just picked from Raikipia here where are we right now this is Kenya, Raikipia county and this is where apple is doing very well this is called Gobit and let me tell you the weather here people knew that we can't grow anything here we can only do animals and all that but you see the apple is growing very very well another fruits that we have done here we have done and the apple are doing very quite okay so what we have done is ensure that the manure is done and we have done some water irrigation to ensure that this tree is getting water throughout and when you do that that tree will be fruiting every year every year and throughout the year so it doesn't you can't go to a tree and find there is no apples but there are those main seasons that we have but once you give it manure and water that's all so all the apple needs is manure and water that's all please can I get some seedlings I just can't believe it but I'm seeing it so I have to believe it by force I can't even touch it how does it taste by the way it's very succulent it tastes even better than the apples in the market very fresh fresh and juice I need to show them the juice this is not for my saliva this is the juice from the apple exactly how long have you been growing apples this apple my father have been doing it I am only taking over from what my father started the tree is the one he is the founder he propagated and it was called wambugu apples by the Kenyan it's called karo these are the people who deal with plants they named it after him that was back in 1985 when I was a very little girl when I found him doing this and I found him getting money then we got into it so for me I have been doing it since I knew myself after school I came to do this what did you learn in school I did agriculture but I didn't do it I didn't specialize so much because what we learned it was already in us it was a certificate for us to come and do this but I did agriculture just to ensure that you know how for a few things but for me it was in the blood because my father was doing it and we could see money what are we looking for in this world we are looking for money does it mean growing apple is profitable very profitable highly profitable how profitable one kilo of what you're holding and Maya since you harvested this fruit you're still eating so you can't even finish two one is enough so seven of them makes one kilo one kilo here we sell at $3 because it's around $300 so if seven fruits is $300 then if you have a farm like this one we have planted five acres and one tree can give you up to 200 pieces and 200 pieces you divide by seven so how much is a lot of money and you are getting this this tree will be here over 80 years wow and you are harvesting that's a lifespan 80 years is a disease resistance you don't have to so it's just growing water you're done that's the beauty of the apple so since the idea was started by your father what was your father doing before he came to growing of apples my father was a mechanic a mechanic was a cam farmer he was doing onion tomatoes and he had some cows so this time he went to Abadeya's mountain and he found this tree fruiting very well this is where the fighters were in the forest so he found this nice apple fruiting so so well and that's how he started propagating with some few apples he had in our home area so once he started propagating and grafting they brought these great apples you are seeing fruiting this huge and fruiting almost touching the ground and that's how my father started you mean he found a plant of the apple in the forest in the forest so which means apples were already growing yes they were touching down that's where he got attracted and that's how he started propagating kwa ni kipada kahawa kahawa ikaleta jida kwa jiri kahawa kwa tukiwuna kahawa kahawa ikaleta jida ni kangwa ni kaudoka kakawa sasa ni wakatili ni kwa ni kipada tirito mato na passion ni rikuwa ni kifuna gu ni yabiri tirito mato sasa ni ki edere aku peleka kwa soko na nyuki wakatili ni rikuwa na io matuda niki janali ni kuta ni ki tabika na matuda io matuda ni tirito matu na passion adini yabia ni kapewa oda ukomauti kenya sawarikirabu wakatili ni eda ni kapewa oda io oda waka ni kawa ni naigiri aipo maneno inaito aipo wajiri ni rikuwa ni kinunuwa iipo na Uzaafrika wakatili ni edere aika biyo ni chev ni ede ni odoka kwa kununuwa iyo ada Uzaafrika nika jivania yabu iiri kwa jiri iyo iikonadawa iyo ada Uzaafrika wazuguwa kakata iire ni kuta kwa musitu ni rikuwa ni katafutu kama ii iirikuwa kubuwa kama ii ukomu kwa musitu lakini iirikuwa yawale wa saye iirikuwa wana pigania uru wana iituwa maumahu lakini iirikuwa wajiri wajirikuwa na rodoa kwa musugu usiadiake waka pereka kwa musitu nika toa iyo michi nika pereka kwa gunyubani nika ansa nika toa iirikuwa kubuwa kama ii iirikuwa kuwata kilo waka tini iiruwa uko na nyuki setrasona nika pereka nika kutuwa musugu moja aka niya biwa wabogo wawana iituwa wabogo diyo asa iirikuwa iirikuwa urituwa api iirikuwa That's why the apple is named after him Exactly The apple in Kenya they couldn't believe it so they took the roots they took the leaves and they took the fruit to go and test Once they did that and it was amazing and they found it's the best in the whole world I'm not polishing it's the best which apple can do in every corner of Africa every corner of the world and then they had to name it wabogo apples just to have it a name because they couldn't even get another name to give it wabogo apples So this is wabogo apples Is your father still around? Yes he is I'm the first born Yes the power of the first born How does it feel knowing that your father has transferred his legacy I mean to you how does it feel It is sweet you know when you get blessing from your parents you can go miles and miles those blessings you cannot leave them you can't and being the first born I had to take it and be the ambassador of his what he found But I think you've propagated the name of wabogo apples to the world more than even what your father did your father discovered it but I believe that we all know you even more than your father but he gave me that blessings and I told him you know what I'm going to get it and he's seeing it happening I want to look at it this is a we have covered this because of the birds they like eating so wherever the fruits come we try to cover before we build the shed net for this place Is it like I'm just calculating 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 1 kilo just from there and you see other places now the flowers are coming up and this plant is around 14 months Is it capital intensity? No Once you have the land you just buy the trees because you have the land that is the most important and most of us we have our parents who have lands and idle lands so why don't we do this which is also bringing money to them at their old age and now my father is enjoying his life he's enjoying harvest so he can do it How long does it take 9 months start fruiting once you plant because we sell grafted trees once you plant like this within 9 months they start fruiting 9 months but they cannot give you much fruit because even you you have to control the fruiting sometimes you see like this this is one bunch with around 5 or 6 fruits so if you allow a 6 months I mean 9 months plant to have all the corners all the branches 6 6 6 can break the tree so what you do you pluck some of the flowers and leave like 10 10 of them so that the tree can also build the muscles to hold the fruits they said one apple keeps the doctor away here they keep even the witch doctors away but one thing that she's not telling us is that bunch of apples keeps poverty away exactly now let me clutch this one the ladness of this and it's organic so you don't have to go and wash you just pull it like this you see I don't know the apple that we all see in the market it's a bit like it's round but this one over that makes it the typical African we always have to be unique I mean sometimes I always tell Africans in your own way and you have to believe in yourself because the whole world depends on Africa it's true see how you're working see Africa is a very natural I can't believe this man I'm just doing the way so that I can enjoy this one ah you want to call it a day I'm watching you what comes into your mind when you hear Africa wow when I hear Africa it's a great continent you know what we have the best swell in the world that you can even drop a seed like this to just grow naturally and the best thing with Africans that we are hard working we know how to do it and we don't look at whatever is happening we focus and we have a goal so that's how I love Africans how many countries you transfer your knowledge to in Africa so far so good we are up to 7 countries so far I've been working so many farmers in different countries and we have worked with them personally I've gone to their country I've gone to their farm so we go to their interior and I train them how to do it and I show them how to do it because most of them is like the way you are saying Maya so how do you grow this so have to be there and show them how to do it how to take care of it so I believe this flag that we are seeing represent the countries that wambugu is present so you mean you are growing in Ghana in Ghana kumasi akra hey and you guys are hiding pokuase you mean you are growing apples in Ghana and I didn't know you should know now if you are one of them send me a message let me come and see your product so gone so far so good and I'm proud of it I've never seen a farmer that moved from one country to another just to train people so that they also start growing what you grow what makes you do what you do you know Maya one thing is that when you find gold don't just hide it alone prosperity is not a caste that you have great houses you have but prosperity is when you lift someone somewhere and don't lift one, two or three that is prosperity you see someone shining making up in life and it is from you going around Africa and far away to Grenada and Jamaica that is the far that you have gone is seeing that that farmer who is down there being lifted and not just lifting but doing the right thing and leave that person enjoying life and not life the kidding of poverty and the family enjoying what we are enjoying here because here in Africa we are so many we keep healthy there are things that we need to eat for us to be healthy apple is number one and that's why even the alphabetical it starts with an ah and it starts with an apple that deserves a bite so that's what inspired me and I feel nice when I see people saying ah my fam is doing where Kate came and I was able to do the right thing and you see them harvesting what has been the biggest challenge bringing this farm together the greatest challenge was water and because here we we don't have any liver around so it was the greatest challenge being that is what the major unit for the apples so that was the biggest biggest challenge and we had to do the borehole it's not easy but you had to do it when you see a liver here it's a dream but with a borehole we have been able to manage this and that was the biggest biggest challenge but you were able to overkarnage whenever you come here and you see this even when I have stress I go around this place and you pick an apple and you see how they are you leave this place energetic I'm telling you the truth did you see this size Maya this size did you see what are you going to take to Ghana if it is not this or that I'm not even taking to Ghana I'm eating it here okay I'll take you to Ghana these are your seedlings yes these are our seedlings you don't have seed no we don't have seeds they have seeds but the quantity because we sell a lot of fruits so you know we cannot follow you Maya give us the seed so we propagate them and then we graft them so these ones are grafted and this is how the grafting is happening this is where the grafting happens so we join this and this this we call it rootstock rootstock is the mother to carry this tree will be there over 80 years once you plant like this so we don't sell rootstock we sell like this these ones will carry this one 80 years your father brought this from the bush yes this one was a tree grafted 4 times you get not just one tree and combining 4 times he grafted and then this one now will go for 80 years and fruiting massively that's incredible man but I guess this one is for sale yes how much is one US dollar or 80 euros or Kenya shilling or 10 CDs are you a millionaire? yes I am so you mean farming can make one a millionaire and even a billionaire I'm a good example and that's why I'm recruiting more to become millionaires it's not good and bad to enjoy money please I wanna be an apple farmer hallelujah someone should come and inspire you people I'm done no no you have to hold there no no no I'm done where will they see this we will fire you oh my goodness that's incredible so who are the people that you saw this to? no this one we some of this we are preparing for our farm some of them not just selling but for our farm we are doing a hundred acres so this is some of them from this part is for our farm but we also sell them you have five acres and now you are doing a hundred acres have you started already? no we already purchased the land so now we are preparing for them the money you used to purchase the hundred acres came from yes the fruits I feel like you are doing mixed farming over here because I am seeing fish spawn right over there yes for breakfast you take fillets what do you buy? salt what do you buy? no we buy lotion because I am here and I am seeing everything I don't know what this lady buys I am seeing pepper, tomato I am seeing catch fish do you have trapea? she brought the whole now to her village we maximise every space you have you maximise see I want to ask you a question yes sir so many Africans that really want to learn from you they don't have a farm here but they are looking for a way to come and learn from you you know what Maya? I wish you were spending here you could have tested the life of a farmer you have done cottages where you come we don't charge you and the reason we don't charge you we don't want to show you that it is hard to start this just come here in Kenya what you are eating is what I observe you in the dinner I mean for your lunch in the morning you have fish fillet so this is what is happening here you don't charge them when I come to your farm will you charge me sweeping in your house? I will charge them everything is money if you don't want to charge them let me charge them on your behalf then you have not become a farmer please actually a beautiful farm and the fact that you have employed so many people how many people do you have in here? we have more than 30 now wow and how many acres? this one is 5 acres fully on our flutes trees when you were growing up life was not that easy but after coming to your farm to see the number of lives that depends on you how do you feel anytime when you come to the farm let me say that everyone you are seeing here depends on us and we cannot make that mistake that whatever we are doing not to make it not only for my family but also for this life this guy you are seeing here this man 12 man we have been with him for several years he had two children that have been from secondary imagine we made that mistake and not work hard what about those kids? I believe this is what keeps you moving yes I have so many Africans that watches my videos they have a message for them what would that message be? the message is that it is possible to do farming farming is not being a farmer is not being like illiterate no being farmer is the best anything that can't grow is what you have not planted the what you think that no it can't grow in the sandy soil cannot grow in the hot areas it is only what you have not planted wambugu apple is one example let's do it Africa so it means it's possible to make it in Africa? it is possible Africa is beautiful the soil I really want to know as a farmer yourself what do you think can be done to improve the lives of farmers in Africa? one is the support manual support and financial support also because like us we had to pull up our resources as a family but if it is possible when maybe a certain community start doing such a thing it's good to give them that boost because it's not only helping that family but also other families this is how we can work it out together because like now we are drilling a borehole even in Ghana drilling a borehole it's not easy so this is why we need some boost even if it's the banks let everything be easy stop asking so many things it becomes so hard for farmers to do this they are banks that attach to their farming but for you to get that money it takes a whole year and that year you want to use it trust us as farmers please trust we need it is the government supporting farmers? they should be they should support because that's why we have the government that's why we vote for them and they will always use that as a campaign aspect but we never see them after that you be looking for them so let government support farmers because when you support us it's bringing also revenue to the government now I know that it's possible to grow apples in Africa do you also believe now do you have anything to tell them? it is possible to grow apples and not just apples wanbugu apples to accept any kind of soil climate and appreciate you let's change that narrative buy one seedling today plant it in your backyard and let the world come and see wanbugu apples your favorite village boy Mr. Gane baby please do me a favor subscribe to this youtube channel and please share this video because everyone in this world need to know that folks grows in Africa