Category Archives: Mini Packs

The Mini Pack Method (Year 2000 Text)

Smallholders pin their hopes on modern fertilizers

It is barely 4 years since Florence Apiyo first heard about the Sustainable Community-Oriented Development Programme (SCODP). Before then this farmer in the Kenyan village of Nyamwaga had barely been able to feed her family. She did have enough land, and her 5 children helped with the heavy work in the fields. But despite good rainfall the yields remained low. The soil was so leached-out after 2 crops a year that it simply yielded too little. Continue reading The Mini Pack Method (Year 2000 Text)

The Mini Pack Method 2015

 

Shops opened with help

Agrovet shop in Uguja, western Kenya, the SCODP organisation helped to open.
Agrovet shop in Uguja, western Kenya, the SCODP organisation helped to open.

Most lot of the “Agrovet” shops in the small towns still exist. Residents who wanted to open such a shop got a credit from the agricultural organisation SCODP. Before, farmers had to travel far to buy material.

  • Still There

    minipack_314pxhoch The mini packs with fertilizer for small farmers are still being sold. 20 years ago it was an innovative idea to sell small affordable packs to farmers in the countryside.

    Packs getting larger

    vitutisAs smallholder farmers move forward and form their own buyers and marketing associations, they buy larger packs and improve their harvests and income, says SCODP staffer Vitutis Ochieng. Photo: Chrispen Sechere