Around fifty vulnerable households from the 3e4e,5e et 6e Districts in the Capital benefit from training enabling them to develop the agricultural sector.
The NGO PPC Madagascar, in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, will teach these farmers the “Pfumvudza” technique from Zimbabwe at the ESTA training center in Ambatobe. This farming technique involves minimizing soil disturbance or tillage, providing permanent soil cover using organic mulches, practicing crop rotation and combining cover crops with main crops. This training in climate-smart agriculture will last three months. “As part of which, plots of land with an area of 2,000m² located in the Arivonimamo district will be made available to these beneficiary households. This will allow them to build their own homes while developing agricultural activities,” declared Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Harifidy Ramilison yesterday during the official launch of training provided to these vulnerable households in the Capital.
Biblical principles. It should be noted that around thirty Malagasy people, made up of technicians, engineers and managers of associations working in the field of agriculture and livestock, have already traveled to Zimbabwe to follow this training on the technique ” Pfumvudza”, a few months ago. It is their turn to popularize it for the benefit of farmers in Madagascar. This concept is inspired by biblical principles to transform individuals and break the yoke of poverty, we learned. Thus, farmers learn to be self-sufficient and to optimize the use of their land. On their return, the beneficiaries of this training committed to training other farmers in order to disseminate this conservation agriculture technique allowing them to adapt and be resilient in the face of climate change, at the national level. The objective is to ensure food security while improving the standard of living of vulnerable households. Other training on livestock management will be provided soon by the supervisory ministry to these beneficiaries, it was concluded.
Navalona R.