Description

ILMAMUSI CFA successfully ran an agroforestry campaign targeting farmers and schools both within and outside the forest. Both grafted fruit trees and exotic tree seedlings were grown by farmers in the farms across six locations with 18,800 seedlings planted. Farmers were first trained on tree growing, monitoring and maintenance with key focus on holes digging and spacing, growing procedures, watering, pruning, manuring, pest and disease control, weeding, marketing and integration with other crops. With support from East Africa Wildlife Society and JKUAT, over 1500 farmers benefited from the programme with community monitors engaged to help in tracking progress of the agroforestry campaign. The project ended with the CFA and other local partners engaged in continuous monitoring. It is one of the largest and most successful agroforestry campaigns to ever been run in the Mukogodo landscape.