Tiyeni Organisation has urged farmers in Traditional Authority Chimutu in Lilongwe District to embrace climate-smart agriculture technologies to boost their crop production.
Tiyeni board member Professor Bernard Kamanga said this on Monday during a field day at Mkoma Primary School.
During the visitation, people appreciated how deep bed farming method has helped farmers realize bumper harvest this growing season.
In his remarks, Kamanga said climate change shocks have affected crop production and farmers should start cultivating crops in a different way.
“So deep bed farming method helps farmers manage soil and water because the method stores rain water and controls erosion,” he said.
Kamanga further said it was interesting and encouraging that many farmers in the district have embraced the
technology.
“Some of our members are in Zimbabwe where they have been invited to teach farmers the method. The demand is high, but the challenge is resources,” he said.
Lilongwe Agriculture Development Division chief crops officer Fumbani Kadokela thanked Tiyeni for the initiative, saying with the erratic rains that the country is experiencing, there is need to adopt new agricultural technologies to have bumper yield.
“We need to accept that climate change has come to stay, but as farmers, we need to find means of adapting to such situations,” he said.
One of the lead farmers, Gladwell Kapatuka said he is expecting to get a bumper yield.
“I encourage my fellow farmers to embrace the technology because they will never regret,” he said.
Another farmer Aaron Gadama also said he was expecting a good yield courtesy of the technology.
Tiyeni has been operating in the country for over 15 years and is implementing a climate-smart agriculture project in the district
