ccess or failure of the sugarcane project depends on the prevailing weather condition.
Of the total responses, 14 per cent were involved in merry-go-round, which is not an
income-generating activity as such, but rather one that helps individual members to
acquire kitchen ware and cash for meeting their households’ needs. The success rate
for this category of MSEs was 75 per cent. Five merry-go-round MSEs were found to
have sustainability indices of above 50 per cent while two had an index of below 50
(Table III). The failure rate for this category of MSEs was 25 per cent. This is attributed
mainly to high default rate, dishonest, members that are not cooperative members and
officials coupled with lack of enforcement of lending rules, and leadership wrangles.