Involving youth in agriculture is also a way of making them autonomous and productive,” says Mr. Mbusa Samuel Obedi, a vegetable farmer in Kanyabayonga, southern Lubero territory, North Kivu. This was during an interview he granted to kalalopress.net on Saturday, July 8, 2023.
This young entrepreneur in the agricultural field tends to his garden of about 50 by 25 meters in the Kirumba neighborhood every day. In this interview, the young Mbusa Samuel Obedi, passionate about agriculture from his childhood, has been doing vegetable farming for more than three years. For him, vegetable farming is more profitable. This activity allows him to be autonomous.
“Vegetable farming is profitable, if you want to make money in a very short time, you have to practice it,” explains Mbusa Samuel Obedi.
Thanks to this activity, Mbusa Samuel Obedi helps his parents by covering more than 70% of academic expenses. Also, he has already purchased a plot of land, he testified to kalalopress.net.
What is the secret of his success?
Like any other profession, it takes courage, they say! Hoping for a good harvest despite the effects of climate change, Samuel Obedi does his best to profitably apply certain agricultural techniques. Among these techniques, he mentions watering every day and the use of animal droppings and other organic fertilizers.
“The plant needs to be followed and fed like a human being, it’s every morning and evening that I come here to water and observe the evolution of my crops. Before planting my cabbages I must first look for fertilizer. I mostly use the droppings of cows,” says Obedi.
However, in the exercise of his profession, the young entrepreneur is faced with the problem of roaming cattle but also the lack of support from the Congolese government and NGOs working in the field of agriculture. Beyond encouraging other unemployed young people to follow in his footsteps, Mbusa Samuel Obedi, calls for the support of authorities and peasant organizations for the activities of young entrepreneurs for an emergence.
“This activity is profitable, only, we don’t have people to support us. When you are earning something, through such a profession you no longer have the mind to go and enlist in groups of wrongdoers,” he concludes.
Augustin Tsongo from Lubero
