NGO contracts 6 000 Gokwe small-holder farmers in Zimbabwe

Published 2022년 1월 6일

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Over 6,000 small-holder farmers in Zimbabwe's Gokwe district have been contracted by the Agriculture Business Centre (ABC) to cultivate drought-resistant crops such as sunflower, sorghum, pearl millet, cowpeas, Bambara nuts, and chillies for the 2021/22 farming season. This is the third year of this initiative by ABC. The target for sunflower production has been set at 4,000 farmers, with seed allocation increasing from 5,000kg to over 22,000kg. The project aims to combat poverty by providing a source of cash cropping and affordable processed oil. A farmer, Clayton Muguti, shared his success story of using proceeds from sunflower sales to purchase livestock and farming equipment.

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Source: NGO contracts 6 000 Gokwe small-holder farmers – NewsDay Zimbabwe BY AMOS BATISAYI MORE than 6 000 small-holder farmers in Gokwe have been contracted by the Agriculture Business Centre (ABC) to produce sunflower, sorghum, pearl millet, cowpeas, Bambara nuts and chillies for the 2021/22 farming season. ABC general manager Vernon Mushoriwa told Southern Eye that they were assisting farmers to grow drought-resistant crops, which are doing well in Gokwe South and are turning out to be cash crops in the district. For sunflower, Mushoriwa said their target was to get 4 000 farmers on board. “This is our third year in the production of sunflower and other small grain crops. The social enterprise has seen an increase in the demand for sunflower production by small-holder farmers in Gokwe. This has forced ABC to increase seed given to farmers from 5 000kg in 2020/21 to more than 22 000kg in the 2021/22 farming season. “Sunflower farming has, over the years, been sidelined by ...

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