Kama nilivyo wahi kutaarifu, Mang´ola na vitunguu are actually synonymous. Now, this time of the year is the msimu wa upandaji. This year it has been so different, everybody even schoolboy and girls have cultivated kitunguu.
Why? I teach Geography and other Social sciences so these reasons will reflect that:
1) Price has been so good for the past two years, up to 80,000 TSH for a 100kg bag.
2) There is this “Pembejeo za ruzuku”, for those illiterate fellows that is govt subsidized fertilizer and the like.
3) I think there a steady growth of the “middle” class in TZ; many town dwellers can afford and want to have kitunguu in their mboga and are ready to buy it at any costs
4) Mang´ola is more accessible than ever, I don’t mean the road’s better, no, more people and more known
5) Market is good and sometimes so reliable, we sell these funny bulbs even to Sudan and funny place of the kind
6) SACCOS
For your information the EA confedertion is here before it is officially announced, Kenyans, and I mean lot of ´em, are here having their portions too.
Well, for those who are planning to come, Please DON´T. Why? 1) We´re busy, 2) It´s too dusty (I mean the road!) 3) Because we’re planting we don’t have money to entertain you as the custom demands.
Till then!
