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Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>A non-governmental organisation called \u201cConserve with Benefits\u201d has trained youths in agricultural practices that are more resilient to climate change. The youths in this training are from Ukwe EPA, TA Kabudula in Lilongwe district.<\/p>\n

Speaking in an interview, Team Leader for Conserve with Benefits Collins Mittochi said they he noted that many youths in rural areas are unemployed and most of them have nothing to do, hence farming can be one way for them to have something and that\u2019s why they introduced the concept to make sure the youth are well trained on how best they can do farming.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur farm here is a youth test whereby we are doing different experimental agricultural practices that are more resilient to climate change. So we ended up here in Ukwe simply because we have seen a lot of youth are depending much on the environment more especially trees to cut them for charcoal production.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought it is wise that we should give them an alternative which they can do on their own after our training and everything. So we introduced this concept here so that the youths can be training proper agricultural practices and later on they can implement their farms and also involve some of their friends and their families in the practice,\u201d said Mittochi.<\/p>\n

Mittochi also commended the youths from the community saying that the youths have so much effort and that they are motivated to adopt some of the trainings that they are doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started with only 30 but we have only had 6 drop outs because of different reasons but the rest of them, they are still committed to the project. Actually, what you have seen here is rainfed agriculture, in the next month we are going to start our winter cropping so all of them are still motivated to be with us. When it comes to the yield on percentage, we can believe we will get 70 % of the yields that we are expecting,\u201d said Mittochi.<\/p>\n

In his remarks, Agriculture Extension Methodologies Officer, Webster Jassi said he was impressed with the organisation because it has managed to entice the youth into agriculture because naturally it is believed that agriculture is for the elderly and not for youth.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means agriculture productivity will remain sustainable and again we will reduce unemployment if we are involving more youths in agriculture production,\u201d said Jassi.<\/p>\n

Jassi further added that it is very important for farmers these days to use improved agriculture technologies that are being recommended by the Ministry of agriculture and indeed that are being applied by the youths at Youth test farm.<\/p>\n

He added that farmers should at least embrace the spirit of being close to extension workers who are the custodians of all these technologies so that productivity increases for the good of their livelihoods.<\/p>\n

Yosefe, one of the youth at Youth test farm, said he has benefited much from the organization and he has gained experience as well as learning different agricultural method practices.<\/p>\n

The organization is working in two countries at the moment, in Malawi and Kenya with the same project and has managed to train and work with 24 youths in T\/A Kabudula Ukwe EPA.<\/p>\n

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