Faced with chronic unemployment, young Kenyan graduates in Kericho County are turning to technology-driven agriculture as a primary livelihood, using AI apps to monitor crop health, plan soil nutrition, and manage livestock. Chepkorir Rotich, 33, who holds a business administration qualification, and Geoffrey Kiprop, 32, an IT graduate, both abandoned years of low-paid contract work to farm full-time, with Kiprop now earning roughly $54 a day — far above his previous peak contract pay of $116 a month. Experts say the trend is significant because younger farmers are better positioned to deploy emerging agricultural technologies, and a new agroecology and AI learning centre has been established at Murang'a University (a public institution in central Kenya) to formalise that training and feed data into national agricultural systems.