By Lyakinda Kikumbwa Enos | Project manager.
Dear Valued donors,
We are excited to share with you the outcomes of your generous support in our pre and post harvest handing and loss reduction project. Your contribution has made a remarkable impact and difference in the lives of our farmers and their communities as well as families.
The challenge:
Post Harvest losses are a significant challenge for smallholder farmers in our community. Without proper handling and storage, a substantial portion of their harvest is lost to spoilage, pests and diseases. This not only affects their income but also exacerbates food security and thus leading to starvation and hunger.
Solution:
Our project has continuously provided farmer capacity training and support on best agronomic practices of re and post harvest handling.
1. Proper harvesting techniques.
2. Handling and storage methods
3. Pest management
4. Drying and preservation techniques
The Impact:
Our project has improved the agricultural production of the farmers in the community by;
1. Training 30 farmer trainers on best practices for growing, maintaining and harvesting coffee cherries including the proper use of fertilizers.
2. Providing inputs to farmers , the project provided tarpaulins, coffee harvesting buckets and coffee pruning implements and lend sprayers to farmers.
3. Providing training in financial literacy and discipline and cross-cutting issues in development, domestic violence and HIV/AIDS and how it affects family development.
Stories from the field.
Meet a smallholder coffee farmer who benefited from our project.
" Before the project, I would put my coffee on the bare ground to dry it, but now I have got the opportunity to dry my coffee on a tarpaulin and buyers nolonger complain of my coffee smelling goat's dung because I now dry it on a tarpaulin, where there is no dung. Coffee traders have started bying my coffee at good prices because it nolonger smells goat's dung".
I can now realize good money from my small piece of land and be able to provide basic needs to my family.
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