Weeding period
November 25, 2011 Leave a comment
The “Get Up Stand Up” Project Coordinator, Henry Goster and agronomist, John Martin visited Mvunguti group in Mpezeni village on 24 November where they met 8 farmers with the aim of strengthening the relationship between the project and farmers and also to see how they are working in their fields.
According to John Martin, this period farmers are weeding in their fields and out of all the members they have visited, only a few have not finished weeding.
The Coordinator said that most of the farmers have cultivated 2 Acres land.
However, some farmers are complaining that the two bags of fertilizers they have received are not enough.
In his response, the coordinator of the project said that it was difficult to give them more than that because some of the farmers have not yet finished paying back their 2010 loan to the project.
“Since prices of commodities are increasing every day, it was difficult for us to give them a chance to take more than two bags because the cost of each bag has also increased and some haven’t yet finished paying back last year’s loans. There is hope that next season they will have a choice to take as many bags as they want only if they will pay their loan in time,” said the Coordinator.