Sanou Diop (63) and Fatou Fall (56) live together with their families. Sanou has 6 children and Fatou has 5. With such a large household to support, Sanou and Fatou were looking for an additional way to provide. With this desire, they became two of the first farmers to receive chickens as part of myAgro’s poultry farming pilot in the village of Saasack.
Their husband, who is also a myAgro farmer, helped them get the funds they needed to enroll. His work and experience with myAgro motivated them to join the pilot and because myAgro offered a package that wasn’t solely focused on planting, they were able to participate.
“The reason why we chose myAgro is that our husband has already worked with myAgro and we have confidence in their ability to deliver good products, we wanted to register for other packages but we don’t have farms so we enrolled in the poultry package,” Sanou said.
Poultry farming is common in rural households and Sanou and Faou had raised chickens before. However, they had negative results.
“We used to raise poultry before but unfortunately, they suffered from diseases (avian influenza) and died,” Fatou said.
The chickens myAgro provides to farmers have been bred specifically to withstand harsh climates and disease and arrive to farmers pre-vaccinated to ensure they remain as healthy as possible. Both farmers saw this with their own chickens and were happy when they were delivered to them.“
They were all in good condition when they arrived. Some of them started not feeling well but we knew to give them medicine and now they are feeling better.”
Sanou and Fatou hope that through their poultry farming, they’ll be able to gain financial independence and provide even more support for their children.
“We plan to sell the eggs and the chickens to get an income to be financially independent.”
