By Asanti | Previous Participant
My name is Asanti. I’m married and have 5 biological children and also stay with 3 step children of my husband’s other three wives.
I’m happy to have participated last year in the Grains for Growth programme. The Act4Africa team trained us in best agronomy practice. One of the biggest positives that I attribute from the training, are the good harvests and surplus of food in my household, something that was not happening before I received the training. Before the training, my harvests were very low, I had nowhere to store my grain which exposed it to pest infestation, that on top of having to sell everything and leaving the family with hardly no food.
The silo and information, I received, has won me a lot of admiration from my neighbors and as well brought me many friends that often come by to seek for advice, unlike in the past which used not to be case. Receiving a silo from Act4Africa has greatly helped me and my family because I am always assured of clean and safe storage for my grain.
I am in positon to store the surplus from my harvests, and have the rest sold. For example, I have recently been in position to start a poultry project, which I begun with from proceeds that I got from sale of my grain recently.
I would like Act4Africa to add us more agronomy trainings especially in modern methods of farming that will help us triple our yields. I use pesticides on my crops and for garden preparation before planting. I first spray for the grass to dry and later I spray on the crop to control pests that destroy the crop at the early stages.
Unfortunately, these have come with side effects on our health, due to strength of the chemicals often used, and worse still is the fact that some people do not have or use protective gears. The chemicals have so much affected our land, which has as result led to it gradually losing its fertility. This has led to use of other alternatives like artificial fertilizers, which unfortunately happen to be very expensive.
I would be grateful to learn other methods of controlling pests without using chemicals if trained and I would later pass on the information to my neighbors.
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