Baseline Survey of East Kobwaye, Kobama Division - Block 1

 Today, 20th March 2011, was a chief's baraza in East Kobwaye in Kobama division. We had previously asked the groups contact person Mr. Paul Okello to urge farmer groups who had interest in Beekeeping and local poultry keeping to present themselves or get registered  with them so that we could get the list and their contact from their representatives and also have a one-on-one discussion with those present on the areas that they felt they had information gaps.
We managed to get a list of:

• 39 farmers with interest on local poultry keeping
• 16 farmers in with interest on  beekeeping

Previously we had got a clue from the contact person on their area interests and immediate activities that had be3n going on in the area before. We jointly went with someone from KAPPAP organization who has a specialty on the above areas of interest. KAPPAP will begin the training on the 27th March on the above issues concurrently.
We also realized that there was also a big  information gap on the idea of fish farming and ALIN (Ndhiwa Maarifa Centre) is getting in touch with one consultant from the Rongo Lake Basin Authority and then we shall schedule a date when the 2 days training can take place. 36 farmers showed strong interest on this.