Visiting the Aora Chuodho Hardcore Youth Group

On the 30th of May 2012, we were able to identify a new hard working group just as the name suggests, in Aora Chuodho through our partnership with Kobama Ministry of Agriculture. This group comprises of 20 members (6M -14 F), such a wonderful balance that works.

The group has specialized in farming as their core business with their farm entailing:

1. A maintained tree nursery
2. Beans
3. MM series Cassava
4. Groundnuts
5. Punda Mlia maize species
6. Gaddam sorghum

After being taken round by the group’s chair-lady, we were able to identify a few challenges and those that could be assisted in time we advised and those that had gone beyond control at the moment were also noted for the next season. Most of their groundnuts were affected by rain and the germination percentage was confirmed to be low.

 The group also had a lot of fear on birds with their almost flowering Gaddam sorghum since were the only people who had sorghum in the region and an assumption that all the birds in the division were going to target their farm. 

We advised the group on the use of certified seeds and timely planting for their groundnuts; birds were not such a big issue and they could be kept away through daily alternation of members chasing them, scare crows or even video tapes tied on various stems to produce that irritating sound when there is wind.

Our major intention of visiting this group was to physically see their activities before recruiting them into our new focal group soon. We liked their work!


You can contact the group through their chair lady on 0701-286 357 or even promote them further by purchasing the beautiful trees and flowers.