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Africa-Press – Tanzania. <\/strong><\/span>Africa given its vast favorable arable land should become the organic food basket of the continent after the resolutions passed a decade ago by the Regional Steering Committee of the Africa Union meeting in Malawi in 2011.<\/p>\n

Taking the stance in Dar es Salaam recently, participants under the Ecological Organic Agriculture \u2013Initiative (EOA-I) promoting ecological organic agriculture to make sure the continent produces enough and safe sustainable food said every government must show commitment through their ministries of agriculture to promote cultivation of crops, which are climatically resilient.<\/p>\n

One of the facilitators, Rwanda Organic Agriculture Movement (ROAM), Chief Executive Officer, Lise Dusabe said that it is time every government focused on building the capacity of value chain actors and sharing information to help farmers grow safe and secure food in the continent.<\/p>\n

\u201cFarmers\u2019 ideas of growing crops should be revisited and modernized with latest research findings without necessarily encouraging them to go for fertilizers and pesticides, which at the end of the chock the soil and kill microorganisms and compromise the health of the soil.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor instance, the University of Rwanda with funds from the UNDP has evidence in Rwanda on the status of some wetlands, which have been wasted by chemicals as a result of farmers\u2019 activities releasing toxics to the soil, and something must be done, because it is an alarm that it is only ecological organic agriculture that requires no heavy chemicals to survive.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have had cases\u2026where bees are disappearing, which means that pollination will not be there, but since we started using heavy chemicals to produce food, have we achieved food security?\u201d she posed.<\/p>\n

She further said Rwanda producing organic seeds of pyrethrum and exporting to Ghana is a clear testimony that organic farming can still be marketable to farmers if they are fully supported by their governments.<\/p>\n

On his part, the Eastern and Southern Africa Small Scale Farmers\u2019 Forum (ESAFF) Regional Chairperson, Hakim Baliraine, who is also Uganda National Chairperson, said giving agriculture priority through the Ministries of Agriculture would raise the capability of the farmers to feed the ever growing markets.<\/p>\n

He further said: \u201cThis must entail holding national\/regional dialogue and policy campaigns to promote ecological agriculture to enable farmers grow uncontaminated foodstuffs, because ecological agriculture protects the ecology, biodiversity and supports the growth of climatically resilient crops.<\/p>\n

It supports civil society organisations like Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM) in Tanzania to coordinate and promote the development of organic farming among farmers, distributors and consumers through networking and information distribution.<\/p>\n

It is tasked to make sure farmers produce certified organic products and regulated by individual government\u2019s bureaus and as well build an advocacy movement that engages vigorously in the agricultural policy-making processes in Africa.<\/p>\n

On his part, Biovision Africa Trust Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr David Amudavi based in Kenya noted that for African farmers to excel in raising organic agriculture growth, they must accept research findings suggested by organizations like ICIPE (International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology- that carries out research and training in sustainable management of insects (arthropods) for improving comprehensive health and agricultural productivity in the tropics ), KALRO (Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Organization) and FIBL based in Switzerland<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir findings require less or no use of heavy chemicals, which affects people\u2019s heath, because evidence shows a lot of diseases like cancer is currently on the rise in human population as a result of modern foodstuffs traced to chemicals used to support their growth.<\/p>\n

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