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Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>The Joint country program has commended farmers in Nagoma district for applying the agricultural skills they acquired during the four-year training program dubbed Making Agriculture a Business (MAB) to improve their livelihood.<\/p>\n

Joint country Programme Director Jonathan Howarth was impressed with the Farmers\u2019 positive results that have laid a foundation for income generation. Mr. Howarth who was speaking during a Joint Country Program (JCP) field visit in Nagoma district noted that the farmers are able to generate incomes and look after their families.<\/p>\n

Mr. Howarth noted that the Joint country program between the Norwegian church aid and the Danish church aid has been working with the communities in Nangoma to encourage a mindset shift from seeing agriculture as a means of survival but as a business.<\/p>\n

Mr Howarth emphasized that agriculture can help communities to lift themselves out of poverty. He disclosed that the project which started in 2014 will end this year with farmers having acquired various skills that will help them sustain their families.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe farmers need more support to gather together into cooperatives and get bigger loans so that they invest in Agricultural machinery and smart technologies so that they can give themselves a bright future\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

And Church\u2019s Health Association of Zambia Agronomist Milton Mwiinga said farmers have learnt the cost-serving irrigation system by using local materials.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis kind of irrigation serves time and it gives the crop the required amount of water among other benefits\u201d Mr Mwiinga noted.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Susan Hambiliki, a beneficiary of Making Agriculture a Business, said she learnt lifesaving skills which will boost her agriculture. She added that from her saving group she\u2019s rearing chickens which she hoped would help her business grow.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had an incubator which I was not putting to good use so after learning from MAB I started poultry and I\u2019m able to keep records of what I\u2019m doing,\u201d Ms Hambikili said.<\/p>\n

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