By GIDEON NYENDWA
FARMERS in Chief Bunda Bundua’s chiefdom in Lufunsa are ready to take up climate smart farming methods if they can be empowered with animals whose droppings would be used for manure.
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Farmers who are participating in the Voices for Just Climate Action (VCA) training program now understand how their old ways of farming that involved cutting down of trees and the continued use of chemical fertilizer has negatively affected their livelihood.
Evelin Nshindano a farmer of Mubamba village called of government and other stakeholders in the agriculture sector to empower the farmers with soft loans that can use to acquire animals.
Ms. Nshindano said the farmers learned how to organic fertilizer called Bocashi that is made from animal droppings, ashes and leaves from plants and the fertilizer called Tea extract.
She said after acquired knowledge from participating in a group program, she has been able to produce the fertilizer for the farm because she does not have animals whose animals droppings can be used in the making of the fertilizer.
“If I can only be empowered with four goats male and female plus the chickens that is already have I would be able to produce enough fertilizer for my three hectors piece of land because the animals will also reduce as days goes by”
“As farmers we are ready to shift complexly from old farming method that have proven to be dangerous to our live but only need a little boost so that we can get our own animals, she said.
And Florence Tembo demonstrated that how a climate smart way of farming called Gampani were a hole is dag add manure before landing than tearing the land has proven to be profitable and the land is conserved in its natural form.
Ms. Tembo said she has been able to save a lot of money that they used to buy fertilizer before they were introduced the new way of farming.
She said the new method of farming not only profitable but it saves water and the maize she plated has been able to with stand the dry spell that came after the first rain when she planted.
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