The focus of this photo journal entry is the second entry on "Foods". See previous blog for particulars of crops of Karagwe - beautiful banana, coffee, pineapple, sugar, avacado, tomato, potato, cassava, maize, papaya, mango, and trees to name some staples. As I said in my last entry, challenges, due to limited broad-based understanding of some basics such as pest control, irrigation, mulching, crop rotation, seed selection, and marketing strategies, include the farmers not getting large yields or returns on their harvested crops. Most are subsistence farmers aching for new ways to go about crop production, crop conservation, and harvest-to-market techniques. This is where the comprehensive plan for KARUCO - Karagwe University College comes in. Dr. Benson Bagonza founded KARUCO - Karagwe University College to address the need for improved agriculture. His concept
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