The population of Burkina Faso is growing, putting increasing pressure on the country’s limited arable land. Agriculture, the backbone of Burkina Faso’s economy, continues to show potential as a strong way to sustain a family’s livelihood.
ECHO recently partnered with local NGO Job Booster to provide trainings for 564 people under the age of 35 in market gardening techniques and entrepreneurship to improve their gardening production. Each training lasted 10 days.
Abigaelle Kini was one of the women trained. She and her husband have a small plot of land that they were farming, but they never quite knew how to make it successful.
Ms. Kini shared, “As a housewife I had never learned about gardening. I managed to plant the vegetables, but it didn’t work because worms would attack my plants. After the training with ECHO, I learned how to make good natural products to eradicate the worms from my garden. My husband and I work together in the garden and often our young children help us. We are teaching them little by little all that we have learned.”