Well, on the introduction to this blog I recall mentioning my little capsicum farm, which was more or less a pilot project. We had never done capsicum before, and not just us but almost the whole neighborhood. So it’s a knew thing, one we are hoping to learn from ourselves and also encourage other farmers to try it as well.
In this place people have only recently started consuming capsicum, and it’s attributed to the call by the Health CS for people to eat healthy. So folks are now eating hoho (capsicum) and even spinach which most people never appreciated. Nowadays it’s hardly surprising to see someone hawking coriander in homes around the village, and people buying.
But the market is still too small, hence the headache for our hoho, which are about four hundred stems that are already fruiting. When we were planning we thought maybe it won’t produce that much, and whatever would be produced we would just sell in the community. We were wrong.
When the plants started flowering we were shocked, we hadn’t expected that. And then the fruits, they’re so many we expecting a good yield. Our first harvest will be at the end of this month through December.
While researching on the market back before planting, we had noticed Nambale market but we didn’t think we would have to look for the market there. But now we might have to reconsider.
Also, just out of desperation, we reached out to one of our neighbors, a town council officer in Busia town who after seeing our capsicum also decided to try it. He promised that he might be able to help with that, and if he comes through, it would be a blessing because he has his own car and so ferrying the produce to the market won’t be a problem. All left would be to discuss his terms.
But you know in this line of business you don’t wanna rely on someone too much, cause people can disappoint, hence our worry.
We are looking for another solid market for our hoho for the coming weeks. As we talk to people; mama mbogas out here, research online, we would like inform anyone around Busia County, or larger Western Kenya and even beyond who might need hoho to reach out to us.