The trainings also cover good practices such as weeding, mulching, and post-harvest-handling. These trainings are headed by agronomists from the district government, with support from RTV field officers, where farmers are taught how to maximize their small gardens and reap and to plant in lines. Raising the Village (RTV), developed programs that include good-agronomic-practice training offered to every community in each district to specifically address issues that farmers like David are faced with in last-mile rural Uganda. For communities like his, spending all of their income on just one variable of the equation makes no financial sense, and those who are on the brink of crossing the line to hunger are trapped in an ineffective model of farming, just like David. The cost of investing in inorganic manure, which is the most crucial element that he needs every planting season, has worn David out. David Miryango is a full-time farmer supporting a family of four.
