For the past few years. I have been involved in farming activities mainly for home consumption and once in a while trade. From the onset, I must state here that farming is a very lucrative business but has challenges. However, if one has to eat, they must at least learn to produce one. This is the financial independence that we all need. It comes in different forms. Others like to buy, and others like to produce and sell, but whatever the case, both must benefit mutually, though the producer must get more in order to produce more. I have had difficulties producing more in the recent past due to unstable market prices. For instance, in 2019, I produced 120 by 50kgs of maize and at the time, the price for our staple food had really dropped to undesirable prices for a peasant or small scale farmer like me and others in these villages. The, then prices of maize, made most of us peasant/small scale farmers decide to reduce our focus on maize production as decided that now it was time ...
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