Mr. Kasinzi sells every year 50 meat cows. Since 2005 he is member of the Livestock Rural People’s Organisation (216 members, of which 150 are women), which is member of Myanze ACE (also since 2005) and is the vice-president of Myanze ACE for 5 years now.
He owns different machineries: ploughs, 2 tractors, a grader and a disc hallow. He constructed a big drying place for the maize, borrows a tresher machine and has a big maize warehouse where other farmers can also keep their bags with maize production. They bulk the maize together in order to get a better price when sold on an individual base at the farm gate.
It is a family farm and make use of 20 laborers: 2 for the goats, 4 for the cows and the rest for arable farming. He could not show the costs and benefits, he makes use of a professional bookkeeper. He had a demonstration maize field with 2 experiments: one plot is PANNA hybrid seeds used and on the other with Longe 4 (for shorter seasons, not hybride). He bought the seeds in the input shop of Myanzi ACE. He is harvesting two times a year, once in February and the second time in July. He doesn’t use herbicides on the maize.
He is 2 years member of the Myanzi Peoples SACCO (saving and credit cooperative organization) He does not make use of artificial insemination. He does burn the land after harvesting the maize.