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Model Farmer thanks World Vision for agriculture training
In the mid-1990s, after repeated stints as a fisherman and traditional farmer, William Kizza enrolled in World Vision Uganda agricultural training. Instructors taught him organic farming techniques, how to grow vanilla and other valuable crops, and animal husbandry.
Besides vanilla - which he markets for export around the world - Kizza also grows maringa, whose pods are valuable as a medicine, fetching upwards of $30 Cdn a kilogram. As well, he grows bananas and a variety of vegetables, both for sale and for his family.
Kizza is so grateful for the training he received, that for the past five years he has instructed other local farmers in the methods he learned from World Vision, in an effort to improve their productivity.
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