THE SECOND VISIT

The food science group left for nakasongola on Wednesday 22^nd July 2009 at 8.00 am and reached nakasongola town at 11.00am where we had some refreshments and later lunch. At 2.00pm, different student groups left for there respective farmer groups.

First visit; to zibula atudde farmers group

We visited zibula atudde group in kyankonwa on Wednesday 22^nd July 2009 at 2.30pm.we arrived at Mr,Matovus home the groups marketing officer but the members had not arrived yet but were later called and the meeting kicked off with a prayer from one of the farmers.

We displayed the different products we had developed which included cassava crisps, sweet potatoes cookies, hard corn, and bagiya and packed roasted g.nuts which they tasted and appreciated. The members discussed about the different products and the availability of raw materials at the time and finally the majority chose to start with the sweet potato enterprise. They chose Mr. Matovus home as the center for production because it is easily accessible to most of the farmers. We later told the farmers that we will be coming back soon to start the oven construction and production. The meeting was closed by the chairperson at 4.30 pm and we went back to nakasongola town.

Second visit; to kyamasanda farmers group in kakooge

On our second day Thursday 23^rd July 2009 at 8.00am we left to meet our second group in kokooge, we reached at 9.00am and also like the first group we found only one person at Mr.Sulas home the meeting place. The meeting was opened by a prayer from one of the farmers, we first displayed the dried pineapples which was the only product we had for that group since they refused to deal in other foods except pineapples yet we could not produce for them juice and jam because they have a water problem. But later we displayed the other products we had developed for the other group and they did taste them.

They chose Mr.Kayizzi’s home as the place of production because it was big, had direct sunshine, was near a water source and had grass. We also accepted because it met our production and drying specifications. The meeting was closed; we went and visited Mr.Kayizzi’s home and later went back to nakasongola town, had lunch and later left for Kampala at 3.30pm.