A workshop held at MSU saw farmers from vegetable growing areas like Lower Gweru, Vungu and Insukamini engaged in training that focuses on the production of key major cash crops such as tomatoes, potatoes and onions.
Leaders of various farming associations and co-operatives who depend on irrigation projects also got the rare opportunity of acquiring technical know-how of farming the crops.
The training came at a time when several agricultural projects established in 2011 by Care International to transform lives of the poor have been abandoned by beneficiaries due to lack of skills. The US-supported project in Mberengwa, which helped the elderly to find livelihoods in agriculture, has also folded.
Participants at the training told The Zimbabwean that the latest training changed the way they had been farming.
“We largely depended on traditional ways of farming but this training exercise has opened our eyes to modern practices,” said a participant, Rosemary Tsiga, from Shurugwi.
“It was an opportunity to gain new skills,” said another participant, Lovejoy Hlatshwayo, from Lower Gweru.
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