WORLD VISION TRAINS FARMERS
By Patricia Banda:
World Vision Zambia in Mumbwa District has trained over 10-thousand Farmers in different skills which include conservation farming to help improve production.
World Vision Area Programme Manager Alfred Chushi says the organization has also installed two automatic weather stations worth 1-hundred and 35-thousand kwacha.
Mr. Chushi says it is important that farmers are updated with information on different weather patterns in view of climate change.
He told ZNBC News that World Vision has been working with the Ministry of Agriculture through Agriculture extension officers in the area to reach out to farmers.
And one of the beneficiaries Choolwe Mwiinga said he is expecting a yield of 2 thousand by 50-kilogram bags of maize from his 60-hectare field.
Mr. Mwiinga said he has been practicing conservation farming for three years now and was in 2018 awarded with an upcoming young farmer in conservation farming by the Second African Congress on conservation Agriculture in South Africa.
The 35-year-old farmer adds that he utilized the new weather station and was able to plant crops accordingly.