Sun, 03 Sep 2017 12:39:09 +0000 BY CHIKUMBI KATEBE GOVERNMENT has established agriculture nurseries to encourage cashew nut growing in Western Province. Sioma district agricultural coordinator (DACO) Belvin Muntanga has disclosed that the Ministry of Agriculture has established cashew nut tree nurseries to help provide farmers with seedlings for planting. Mr Muntanga said the seedlings nurseries already started included Sioma, Shang’ombo and Namushakendi among others. He said Government’s plan for cashew nut growers in Western province was that each farmer was to receive 100 buds for replanting while any addition could be bought by the individual farmers. “Sioma is one of the target catchments for cashew nut development to help increase income levels at households and national economy. “This is a five year programme to grow seedlings for 1,200 farmers in the 2017/2018 agriculture season but with an ultimate objective of upto 530,000 trees for Sioma alone,” he said. He explained that with a life […]
