25 As can be seen from Table 7 below, which summarises the market garden production for the two seasons – 1999 and 2000 – all groups showed an improvement in the second year. These figures represent income earned only, and do not indicate the volume grown or the volume consumed by the families themselves. Table 7. Garden production [1998/1999-1999/2000] Group 1999 Z$500 Z$1,400 Z$20 Z$3,300 Z$1,200 Pachanza Nyamutamba Nyamashava Chomakuyo Kakeza 2000 Z$2000 Z$1,352 Z$2,449 Z$4,990 Z$4,900 Total Z$2,500 Z$2,752 Z$2,469 Z$8,290 Z$6,100 The number of people that benefited from the food security programme were both direct and indirect. In the year 2000, a number of people outside the programme benefited, and given the current economic hardships the figure will continue rising. The Amani Trust estimated that about 6000 families benefited from the maize and garden components in 2000. 4.4.2 2000-2001 season The 2000-2001 season was the first year in which all three components of the programme were implemented. As can be seen from Table 8 below, there was an appreciable increase in the tonnage of maize produced by the groups involved, with nearly an eighteen-fold increase in the maize produced and 41-fold increase in money earned. Table 8. Maize Harvest [2000-2001] Group Pachanza Nyamutamba Nyamashava Chomakuyo Kakeza Chimumvuri Gumbeze Total: Size of harvest 21 tonnes 11 tonnes 14 tonnes 10 tonnes 6 tonnes 19 tonnes 40 tonnes 121 tonnes Income Z$147,000 Z$77,000 Z$98,000 Z$70,000 Z$42,000 Z$133,000 Z$280,000 Z$847,000 As can be seen from Table 9, the cotton growing project was similarly successful, producing over 27 bales of cotton and earning Z$228,816. Table 9. Communal cotton project: bales harvested [2000-2001] Group Kakeza Nyamashava Nyamutamba Pachanza Chimumvuri Gumbeze Chomakuyo Chawarura Kabvuma [1] Kabvuma [2] Total: Bales harvested 2 3 2 3 3 3 5 3 2 1.3 27.3 Income Z$20,400 Z$16,873 Z$17,743 Z$11,592 Z$19,500 Z$39,200 Z$42,408 Z$39,200 Z$20,400 Z$1,500 Z$228,816 AMANI TRUST: Psycho-Social assistance to Survivors of the Liberation War. A report on Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe.