On the 5th of June, we visited Ajuang Women group
in Aora Chuodho. This group is one of the most outstanding groups in this
region who have had the tendency of acquiring and implementing knowledge from
various stakeholders who have worked with them for a while.
The group is composed of 26 people (4 M – 22 F aged people)
of which despite having a group farm where they major on Kitchen Gardening,
Beekeeping and cassava production, adult education school; all these members
have a similar kitchen garden at his or her home, they call it ‘Orundu’.
From the long discussion we had with the group members, it
is amazing at how much each home saves from buying vegetables at the market.
They say that whenever the weather is okay, one is able to get surplus from his
production and take to the market as source of income too. In their kitchen
gardens, each member has:
- Kales and spinach
- Indigenous vegetables e.g. Nderma, Apoth, cow peas e.t.c
- Tomatoes and onions e.t.c.
- Some 10 maize plants
Despite all these good practices, this group of aged and
young adults has found solace in adult education under their senior teacher
Madam Milcah. I was able to attend the class for 15 minutes and you can’t
imagine how amazing it can be sitting in a class with your grandparents.
The group had some info gaps that they had asked us together
with the Ministry of agriculture to find away on how they could be trained on
like:
- How to rear dairy goats How to produce water melon and butter nut
- They required more training on savings and loaning
- And a few members on fish farming
Concerning the above info gaps, I was able to identify Mr.
Timothy Obabo, a farmer who had been trained and practiced water melon farming
for the past 2 years to train them in early July 2012.
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