Newsletter no 27 – October 2022

• Recruit two coaches for the entrepreneurs in November 2021
• Organize a well-attended (106 participants) virtual workshop in India to raise awareness about this campaign in April 2022
• Recruit two women Entrepreneurs for Rural Access (ERAs) from Andhra Pradesh State in May 2022,
• Conduct six orientation sessions for them in May and July 2022 to help start their social entrepreneurship journey.
• In August 2022, the Susag Millet Sisters, one of the selected women Entrepreneurs for Rural Access, conducted four training sessions with video projections on cereals in the village "Pedda Bhayalu" near Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh State of India.
• This helped raise awareness of 30 participants (Trainers of Trainees) regarding good agroecological practices (organic coating of cereal seed, managing rice diseases, and land preparation for rice cultivation).
• The participants followed the training videos with great interest, expressed their happiness for accessing these valuable knowledge resources and requested a translation of those videos in their local language, Telugu.

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• ERA from Uganda, Martha Kyokuhaire, Founder and CEO of VFL Gardens. Mukono, Uganda, facilitated five training sessions in September, in Nantabulirwa, Mukono District of Central Region of Uganda. As part of this training, she showed several videos, mostly in Luganda language, which is widely spoken in Uganda. In total, 48 participants, including 40 women benefitted from these sessions.

  The first session held on 2 September featured the following videos (1) Drip irrigation for tomato; (2) Human urine as fertilizer; and (3) Using sack mounds to grow vegetables (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook)

  In the second training session on 9 September, the videos shown were (1) Managing tomato leaf curl virus; (2) Managing mealybugs in vegetables; (3) Managing mealybugs in cassava; (4) Managing tomato late blight; and (5) Managing aphids in beans and vegetables. (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook)

  Three videos were screened on 14 September: (1) Vermiwash: an organic tonic for crops; (2) Using sack mounds to grow vegetables; and (3) Managing mealybugs in vegetables. (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook)

  Martha showed six videos in the fourth training session held on 16 September: (1) Making yoghurt at home; (2) Herbal medicines against mastitis; (3) Taking care of local chickens; (4) Staking tomato plants; (5) Managing tomato late blight; (6) Using sack mounds to grow vegetables. (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook)

  In the fifth session held on 23 September, four videos were screened: (1) Growing oyster mushrooms; (2) Stronger plants with raised beds; (3) SLM12 Conservation agriculture; and (4) Crop rotation with legumes.

• ERA from Zambia, Sussana Phiri, who has keen interest in agriculture as well as in food and nutrition security, especially of young mothers, facilitated three training sessions in September using videos in Chewa and Bemba languages, for 155 young women in the Mt Makulu Clinic in Lusaka, Zambia.

  The following videos in Chewa language were screened on 7 September: (1) Tomato concentrate and juice; (2) Enriching porridge with baobab juice; (3) Making yoghurt at home.

  On 14 September, she screened three videos, including two in Chewa and one in Bemba language: (1) Tomato concentrate and juice; (2) Enriching porridge with baobab juice; and (3) Growing oyster mushrooms. (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook).

  The same videos were also shown in the third training session held on 28 September. .

• ERA from Kenya, Christopher Mwazighe, Founder and Project Manager at Inua-biz Kenya, a community-based organisation that trains youth to set up and manage enterprises, conducted a training session for 60 youngsters, at Bura Primary School, Bura, Taita Taveta County in Kenya. He screened the video ‘Using sack mounds to grow vegetables’. (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook).
• ERA from Mali, Mamadou Diarra, who is passionate about agriculture, mostly livestock, and is the co-founder of an enterprise called Expert Élevage Consulting (EEC SARL), organised a comprehensive training programme in fish farming in above-ground tanks and used the video on Stocking fingerlings in a nursery pond. (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook).
• ERA from Kenya, Sylvia Wangui Njonjo, who is working as an administrator and field officer at Community Sustainable Agriculture and Healthy Environmental Programme (CSHEP), Kenya, conducted a video show, followed by a practical session for eight members of Kwimenya Women’s Group at Thigio, Kiambu county, Kenya. The videos projected were (1) Killing fall armyworms naturally’; (2) Managing aphids in beans and vegetables and (3) Human urine as fertilizer. (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook)

• ERA from Egypt, Ashraf Sayed, who is a community agronomist, is passionate about helping farmers by promoting organic farming and enabling them to understand agriculture-related information. He has been using the smart projector to screen videos organic farming practices, that have contributed to increase in farmers’ incomes in 2021-2022. (See photos in Access Agriculture Facebook)

• Sabala NGO ERA team members from India, Janaki Bobbili, Syamala Bobbili and Kommu Eswara Rao, collaborated with Inspiiro School, Vizianagaram in Andhra Pradesh to help schoolchildren learn about natural farming practices in Cheepuruvalasa village. Sabala NGO is committed to women empowerment.
• ERA team members from Susag Millet Farmer Producer Company (FPC)-Sarada Valley Development Samithi (SVDS), in India, comprising Indira Karri, Santhi Kumari Tuburu and Dasari Dali Naidu, participated in an event where local farmers collectively prepared Jeevamrutham, an organic fertilizer.

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