Insight

Farmers living with HIV/Aids embrace farming to improve their lives

SEVERAL farmers living with HIV/Aids have embraced the cultivation of Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes, a type of root crop that curbs malnutrition, disease and hunger as well as generates income in their communities.  Through cooperatives that comprise of youth and energetic elderly people mostly women, connected to the Forum for Agriculture Research in Africa (FARA) have garnered efforts to become both economically empowered and physically healthy.
A member of the farmersu2019 cooperative in Rulindo District showing different products they get from the orange fresh sweet potatoes. The New Times / D. Umutesi.
A member of the farmers’ cooperative in Rulindo District showing different products they get from the orange fresh sweet potatoes. The New Times / D. Umutesi.
Doreen Umutesi