THE Small Scale farmers Development Agency (SAFADA) has appealed to the government not to entertain calls to enact laws to ban the growing of local seeds.There have been calls from some Multinational companies for Zambia to enact a law that will make it a criminal offense planting or sharing local indigenous seed varietiesBut SAFADA executive Director Boyd Moobwe says doing so would push small scale farmers against the wall because hybrid seeds are expensive to buy and CLICK TO READ MORE
SAFADA against calls to ban growing of local seeds

A farmer in his Green grams field . the farmer uses the biomass as green manure hence reducing the use of synthetic or chemical farm inputs in his farm .
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