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GATETE turns to large scale passion fruit farming following support from SAIP

While most people are staying at home due to the disruption of day-to-day activities by the COVID-19 pandemic, John Bosco Gatete is making the best out of it, by focusing on a large scale passion fruit farming. Gatete is one of the smallholder farmers in the Sustainable Agricultural Intensification and Food Security Project (SAIP) intervention site, in Nyanza District, Southern Province, who have shifted from subsistence to commercial agriculture, following support they received from the Project. Due to improved agricultural practices and water availability for irrigation in SAIP site, in Nyanza, smallholders have since shifted to commercial farming to boost their income and improve livelihoods. Apart from passion fruits, Gatete who is a resident of Murambi village, Runga cell, Rwabicuma Sector, cultivates French beans and peas on a small scale. He is also a livestock farmer. When you visit his farm, fruits have been planted in several rows, short strong poles are seen supporting them from the ground while their sprawling vines are looped around to keep fruits off the ground.