"Depending on agriculture has been very difficult because I don't get much from it.I am a subsistence farmer who cultivates one acre of land.From the one acre I get not more than 5 sacks of maize and 2 sacks of beans.This is to serve as food for the family and again for sale.This is usually not enough to sustain other needs;the biggest headache being school fees.The low yield is attributed to unpredictable weather patterns and crop diseases.I have 8 children and I struggle a lot taking care of their needs."

"Lack of a reliable source of income is the biggest hardship I am facing in my life. In 2018, I used to operate a joined food outlet with my brother but it collapsed due to family conflicts. I have wished to restart one of my own but I have not been able to fulfill this because of lack of starting capital. This has forced me to dwell on selling poles to my potential neighbours in order to get income to feed my family."

"When I was in high school through to medical college,I was often faced with the challenge of raising school fees.My parents,being peasant farmers,had to struggle without any income to pay for my siblings and I.At some point,when it had proved extremely difficult and I even thought I will have to drop out of college,he was forced to sell a piece of land to settle this.As a result of this,we remained with a very small piece and since I now have a family it is not enough to grow food for my family.Hence,most times I am forced to spend money to buy food which I would have grown if I had a bigger land for farming.This is the biggest hardship I have faced."

"The biggest hardship I face is inadequate money for sustaining my household needs. I depend on crop farming, yet in most cases is not reliable due to nature of rains and lack of better farming implements. Iam therefore unable to raise money which can help in Educating my children through cultivation."

"The biggest hardship that I face in my life is limited land for crop cultivation. I can not farm on large scale due to the limited land. This has led to lie income and food at household level because that is my only source of income."

"Receiving this money means that I will be able to buy land. I sold two acres of farm land to raise money for treating my spouse. This has limited the quantity and quality of crop produce realised in my household since I cultivate only one garden each year. My household members therefore are facing poverty as aresult. Iam failiing even to provide basic needs like proper feeding and health care due to high level poverty. Givedirectly transfers will enable me buy another land to cultivate and plant hence this may lead to increase in crop production. There will be enough food to sustain the needs of my family members."

"The biggest hardship that I face is I do not own oxen of my own that would facilitate early ploughing and planying of crops. I hire oxen which makes it costly in terms of farming and yet agricultural poduce faces elastic demand due to changes in seasons and output. This makes farming scary and challenging hence food shortage and low income."

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is inadequacy of money to buy oxen that I feel would really support my household. I struggle to find some money that can enable me to hire oxen but this is very inconviniencing and unrewarding because in most cases, I get the service late meaning I cultivate late which affects the harvest in the end."

"The biggest hardship faced is feeding and educating the children, then also shortage of cultivation land for more food. "

"Receiving this money means I will be paying off debts to reclaim land used as security for money borrowed earlier. This cultivation land would provide more food for the family."