Improving Income of Akinamama Tujiendeleze Group through Mushroom Farming at ViwanjaSitini Ward in Ifakara Township.

Mwilenga, Christian (2023) Improving Income of Akinamama Tujiendeleze Group through Mushroom Farming at ViwanjaSitini Ward in Ifakara Township. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

This project was a result of the Community Needs Assessment (CNA) conducted at Viwanja Sitini Ward in Ifakara Township. The target community was an economic group of Akinamama Tujiendeleze. The CNA was a participatory process conductedto identify the needs, opportunities, and assets of a community. It also helped to determine a suitable project that wouldaddress the identified needs.The CNA had general objective of determining the challenges and opportunities of the Kinamama Tujiendeleze group at Viwanja Sitini ward in Ifakara Township. Specific objectives were to identify challenges facing the community; to identify income generating activities done by community; and to identify needs and develop interventions to tackle the identified needs. The CNA findings concluded that, the community was facing low-income situation and the project of growing mushroom was a viable intervention to improve community income. The intervention project started in June 2022 with specific objectives of training 10 group members on Mushroom farming skills by June 2022; mobilizing required resources for mushroom farming by July 2022; producing at least 60kg of mushrooms per month by August 2022; and selling mushroom products of TZS 500,000 per month by August 2022. Through process of project monitoring and evaluations, it was established that project implementation was successful.The completion of project activities at time of evaluation exceeded 95% of the expected outcome. It was further established that the project was sustainable economic activity with long-term impactof improving livelihoods of project participants.

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