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“I went to the Ampa Awagna agricultural training camp last year and when I came back I straight away set up a market garden, pig farming and poultry breeding. Usually people who have just been trained specialise in one type of farming, but I wanted to get going with all three.”
Belange stands where the family’s typical annual pile of rice would reach – this year they only harvested half the normal yield of rice.
“The team thought I was dynamic so they invited me back to the Intensive Agricultural Camp; this was for 50 days from July to September last year. I learnt how to farm the land differently than I did before. Now I know how to measure the distance between the seeds, when to sow and how to use the fertiliser.”
Despite being heavily pregnant Belange works from 6 am to 6pm watering her vegetable farm and tending to her chickens and pigs.
“I’m growing tomatoes, peppers and chilli and I have much more output. For example in the past I would get three baskets of tomatoes and now I am getting five baskets with each production. And in one year I grew my poultry farm from 7 to 120 chickens – I did all this!”
“I am earning much more than I did before the training. This means we are proud. Our life is better now – we don’t need help from others or have to ask people for money.”
All images credited: Paddy Dowling/Y CARE International