Some of the farmers that attended the meeting
About 168 farmers attended a “Get Up Stand Up” meeting today in the Umodzi Hall in the Andiamo Education Institutions (AEI) campus.
According to Henry Goster, the coordinator of the project, the meeting was organised to among other things to strategise on this year’s planting season which is around the corner.
Goster has also revealed that for someone to qualify to get fertilisers on credit this year, they must meet the following conditionalities: all farmers must enlarge their previous fields; and that each farmers group must adopt a poor family in their village.
On farms enlargement, Henry Goster says the project is ready to provide a tractor to help the farmers work faster and efficiently.
“We also advised farmers to practice crop rotation and to plant different types of crops and not to only rely on maize alone,” says Henry.
They came from far and wide
Get Up Stand Up is micro credit project that gives fertilisers to farmers that are organised in farmers club on credit. After they harvest they are supposed to give back the money without any interest.
Through the project, some farmers around Balaka have managed to harvest enough to feed their families and to sell the surplus.
By Web Office