Newsletter no 20 – March 2022

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• Access Agriculture Entrepreneurs for Rural Access (ERA) Coach for East Africa, Ezra Masolaki, conducted a training for One City farmers using the video Using sack mounds to grow vegetables in Mbale, in the Eastern Region of Uganda. One City empowers resource-poor people in Uganda by providing education, tools, medical care and agricultural training, among others. (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook).
• ERA Coaches for India, Nandini Pakki and Mounica Lingireddy, are raising awareness government and nongovernment organisations and rural communities about Access Agriculture videos and the ERA model in Telangana State in India. Based on the local needs of farmers, they showed videos on Deworming goats and sheep with herbal medicines, Preparing low-cost concentrate feed, Making a cooling chamber for tomatoes and Killing fall armyworms naturally. All these videos were highly appreciated by farmers. (See photos in Access Agriculture Flickr album)
• ERA from Malawi, Innocent Chaphinza, showed videos on animal health and on Making fresh cheese and Using sawdust to store potatoes to 70 farmers in Chinsapo, Lilongwe, Malawi. (See photos in Access Agriculture Flickr album). In another session, he showed to these farmers videos on Growing oyster mushrooms, Making a chilli seedbed and Making chilli powder (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook).
• ERA from Tanzania, Lilian Sambu, showed videos on Good microbes for plants and soil and Managing tomato leaf curl virus to UHURU Farmers’ Group and Pambanua Farmers’ Group in Chamwino, Dodoma. (See photos in Access Agriculture Flickr album). Lilian also showed videos on Quality cassava planting material and Managing aflatoxins in maize before and during harvest at IITA-Tanzania station in Dar Es Salaam. (See photos in Access Agriculture Flickr album)
• ERA from Tanzania, Stephano Msuya, led a video screening session in Kibosho, Moshi Rural district of the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. The videos projected were ‘Intercropping maize with pigeon peas’ and ‘Dairy goat feeding’. (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook). He also showed videos at a desert locust workshop prepared by Tanzania Organic Agricultural Movement (TOAM) and facilitated by Zonal Plant Health Specialist in the Ministry of Agriculture. (See photos in Access Agriculture Flickr album)
• ERA from Mali, Rokiatou Traoré, travelled to the rural areas the country to show videos promoting promote agroecological practices. (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook).
• ERA from Uganda, Abdallah Seryazi, who serves as the Secretary of the Zirobwe Kalagala Youth Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd. in Uganda, showed a video on Managing tomato late blight to farmers at the Nest of Joy Foundation, Degeya, in Central Uganda. (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook).
• ERA from Tanzania, James Nyaonge, conducted a video screening session on Joining hands against striga at the Nyamikoma Primary School in Mara Region, Tanzania. (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook).
• ERA from Kenya, Maureen Maina, demonstrated her passion to help communities by training youth on making compost after screening related videos. (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook).
• ERA from Mali, Alpha Mahamoud Traoré, trained women farmers from Tara Bouaré, a farmer organisation based in the village of Molodo, Office du Niger-Ségou, Mali, by screening videos on Making a cooling chamber for tomatoes, Tomato concentrate and juice and Rice transplanting. (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook).
• ERA from Mali, Aliou Maiga, screened videos on Using sawdust to store potatoes and Tomato concentrate and juice to farmers at Walirdé, Mali. (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook).
• ERA from Mali, Aboubacar Sidiki Dembelé, raised awareness among farmers by showing videos on Pitcher irrigation, the onion nursery, and Installing an onion field. (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook).
• ERA from Rwanda, Sylvestre Jackson Karara, who is a co-founder of Uruhimbi Kageyo Cooperative (UKC), hosted 3rd year students of Veterinary Science from the University of Rwanda College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine for a study trip at the UKC Hub. The students used the smart projector kit to watch videos to learn about animal feeding and climate resilience. (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook).
• ERA from Kenya, Sylvia Wangui Njonjo, conducting a practical session with students from Makutano Secondary School, Limuru Constituency in Kiambu County, Kenya, after screening the video on Using sack mounds to grow vegetables. (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook).
• ERA from Malawi, Innocent Chaphinza, shows videos to farmers on Killing fall armyworms naturally and Scouting for fall armyworms. (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook).