Doroba Farm

24th January 2013:

This is the Doroba Do-operative, Commercial, Model farm run by 16 women and 6 men. We facilitated the purchase of 22 acres of land early last year and by the year end about 25% of the loan had been paid off.
This shown lemon seedlings, soon to be brought to the greenhouses in Lusangazi, before the cold season.

Robert writes:

Hi John

Today I cycled to Doroba to see what they are doing. It’s an amazing farm, they make three portion of maize (10 by 10 metres) with three type manure for Demostration. Now they started sowing soya for livestock feeding in future.

Problems they working without taking food on lunch time. (Need maize for lunch) and materials like hoes and slashers.

They told me that I am supposed to be in Doroba twice in a week (Is it true).

Thanks
Robert

REPLY

Thanks Robert,

Ring and ask them do they need a loan for food and for slashers. If so we can do it.
We will just add it to their current loan.
There is no requirement for you to go to Doroba at all and there was no agreement for you to do so.
We paid them for 3000 lemon seedlings, have we collected them?. We could take some of their people (women?) to the farm to learn about budding if they need to. Maybe they could grow some mango and other seedlings for us as well next season. It would mean our staff could concentrate on seed production.
Have they done any buildings yet?
Did you learn or teach anything or both on your visit?
J