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Testimonial from Participant Farmer, Luis Romero
Las Breñas, Nicaragua

At the start my farm only produced rice and if by chance I had bean seed, I planted beans, cassava and scarcely corn.  The goverment institutions don't support the farmer and less when one lives so farm from the town.  I didn't know how to farm in any other way. 

I approached SHI ecause I saw that they supported the farmers because I have heard of other projects that teach and I want to learn.  I have always wanted to have some of everything on the farm to have other things to eat.

I like all of the activities SHI has supported because they all help.  With the beans we have for our food now and we didn’t have seed for this year before.  What’s more we have something to sell, the same with the vegetables.  We have always wanted to plant them, but we didn’t have money to buy the seed nor did we know how to cultivate them.  From the worms we are getting [organic] fertilizer that we use in the vegetable gardens.  I have some Pejibaye [palm trees] with the plantains that SHI gave me.  I have already eaten the first fruit and all of the plants have fruit.  I am going to sell some.  Before, I didn’t even have plantain.

I would like to have quequisque [a tasty tuber] on the farm, silos so as to not lose harvests, forestry seeds to plant them along the streams since there aren’t many trees, a chicken coop because the fox and jaguar eat my chickens so I can’t increase their numbers and also a [woodconserving] stove so as to not to have so much smoke in my house.

Of course I want to continue my work with SHI since everything you do is to improve the conditions of the farmers.   If SHI leaves, with the poverty that we have and nobody visiting us, there is very little that we would do.  We hope that you continue with us for more time.