Adding to basket
The seven members of Group 1 (of the Badenya association of Zambougou Fouta) are all married women living mostly in traditional extended families; on the average, they are 44 years old and have four children. They all live in Zambougou Fouta, in the rural community of Tesserela in the Ségou Region (the fourth administrative region of Mali) and know each other as relatives and neighbors. In order to make their agricultural work more profitable, they have turned to Soro Yiriwaso, and this would be their first agricultural loan. The group members will grow peanuts, millet and sesame.
Mrs. Mayama Traoré plans to use her loan to purchase two sacks of complex cereals, 50 kg [110 lbs] of peanut seed and to recruit labors to work in the fields and do the weeding. She purchases agricultural inputs at the Gouassola market and hires laborers through the young people's association in her village. On a plot of 3 hectares [about 7.5 acres], she hopes to produce 20 sacks of peanuts, four sacks of millet and eight sacks of sesame. The sesame harvest and a portion of the peanut harvest are sold in order to meet some ongoing family expenses while the other portion of the peanut harvest is consumed by the family. Mrs. Mayama Traoré, just as the other women in Group 1, has set her goal at ensuring food self-sufficiency in her village.
In this group: Adama, Nènè, Korotimi, Mayama, Sitan, Nah, Awa Adama
Translated from French by Kiva volunteer Katharina S. View original language description.
