Burundi

In traditional cattle farming, the cows were a local breed. Nowadays, however, there is a new ‘modern’ breed of cow. The indigenous cows are small. But the pure-breed modern cows are larger and more productive than the traditional ones. As the indigenous cattle move about the land, they destroy the fields, leading to clashes between the crop planters and cattle farmers. These tensions can be avoided by housing the cows in barns.

We are currently restoring the fertility of arable land by producing and using manure.

This is in the Kirimiro region of Burundi. I will be helping out the rural communities for some time.
In the past, large quantities of chemical fertiliser were used to produce a greater harvest. Because of an interventionist policy of popularisation, farmers gradually abandoned the methods handed down to them by their ancestors.

In Burundi, the agricultural sector constitutes the national economic motor of the country and guarantees the nutritional security of our population. Agriculture is practiced in a traditional way in about 90% of the rural population.

With this method of traditional agriculture, it is the husband who decides how to develop the cultivated land without consulting his family. The wife and children should follow his orders as head of household.