Thyolo Council hails Better Kulima project

Thyolo district director of agriculture, environment and natural resources Jackson Nkombezi has commended Better Kulima Project for transforming people’s lives.

He said this on Wednesday when Self Help Africa was phasing out the five-year project in the district.

Nkombezi said the project offered technical support to farmers in the district.

“As you know, extension workers cannot reach all farmers in the district, so through the project, farmers are learning modern farming technologies,” he said.

Nkombezi also said Self Help Africa supported extension workers with bicycles to ease their mobility challenges.

“The organisation also helped the district to construct a number of irrigation schemes to improve food and income security,” he said.

Self Help Africa project manager for Mulanje and Thyolo districts, Rasneck Nathan, said since 2018 they ahave encouraged farmers to embrace the use of climate smart technologies.

“As the project is phasing out, we appeal to farmers to continue practising modern farming technologies to get bumper yields,” he said.

Khokhola Farmer Field School chairperson Francis Mwakyea thanked the organisation for equipping them with new farming technologies.

“They also encouraged us to formulate a village savings and loans group. We are now food-secure as some of us harvest 20 bags of maize,” he said.

Mwakyea said they continue to seek new knowledge from extension workers to ensure they remain up-to-date with new trends in agriculture.