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Adelina Insumos The shop whose owner signed the financing contract
with AFAP in 2018, is assisting a total of four thousand
smallholder farmers. Before this process, it was assisting
fewer than 50 families and the seeds it sold were in small
quantities due to low demand. The manager of the
“Adelina Insumos” shop, Arsenio Ubisse, said that he had
always been an agrodealer, but not as he is now.

“Right now we have a lot of responsibility. Many farming
families are assisted by us. The responsibility is totally
ours because we have promised the whole community
that our seed is better and makes a difference. For that,
we are obliged to work in order to produce more in this
part of the district,” Ubisse said. In addition, he promised to
create more agrarian jobs and make subsistence farmers
financially independent.

Ubisse said that AFAP had changed his life and that of
the farmers. In his personal capacity he said that not
even in his dreams did he count on having a shop of this
caliber, which was unique and focused only on the sale of
agricultural inputs. “It was far from our dreams to have a
shop of this size, but AFAP and its partners appeared, built
it and made their dreams come true,” said Ubisse. He then
added that the farming community placed their trust in
the shop, creating an relationship and interdependency
between the shop managers and farmers.

“There is a lot of responsibility on our part. We try to do
everything right to gain more confidence. It is a matter of
honor,” he explained.

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