We are pretty busy throughout the year – here are some of the events or happenings on our radar.
Bayer Zambia and the Conservation Farming Unit came together in the second half of 2019 with the intention to showcase the benefits of using certified hybrid – maize & cotton – seed, herbicides and chemicals in improving productivity at the small scale Farmer level when...
CFU has over the past 20 years promoted and trained small holders farmers to practice Conservation Farming, training an average of over 170,000 farmers per year for more than a decade now....
CFU upcoming Field Days – Schedules The CFU has over 6,000 Field Days scheduled for March and April this year - in over 40 Districts – a feat of same the proportions that we have managed to pull off for many years now. Go and attend a...
CFU COLLABORATES WITH PARTNER ORGANISATIONS TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL LITERACY TRAINING TO FARMERS Training Women farmers by AKTC. Chipata. July 2019 Field Officer's Training by SBFIC - Choma, August 2019 Since late 2018 the CFU has been collaborating with several partner organizations to bring financial literacy training and farming...
TRAINING OF TRACTOR OPERATORS AND OWNERS ON OPTIMUM MIN-TILL SERVICE PROVISION CFU Tractor Operator Training. Kaoma. 13.9.19 CFU Tractor Operator Training. Eastern Region. 1.10.19 AKTC assisting with Tractor Operator Training. Kaoma. 13.09.19 During the main training season (June to October/November) each year, the main thrust of the CFU’s efforts goes into...
PRESIDENT LUNGU URGES PARLIAMENT AND ZAMBIA’S MEDIA TO TAKE NOTE OF CA SUCCESSES. In his Presidential Address to the National Assembly on 13th September 2019, His Excellency E.C.Lungu drew specific attention to the example set by a CF farmer, Mr. Raymond Mufwambi, who despite the terrible...
Twice in the last few months the President of Zambia, His Excellency E.C.Lungu has found himself on farms that are doing visibly well despite the very difficult rains that the country received. He rightly and publicly attributed it to good management and the...
The CFU has been working with Financial Sector Deepening Zambia (FSDZ - also supported by DfID) to bring Financial Literacy Training to CFU's Lead Farmers. The training started in our Central Region in December last year, and so far 408 Lead Farmers out of a...
Field Days are the MOST convincing way to spread the message about Conservation Farming. We don't hold them on immaculate, perfectly manicured Demo Plots. No, we hold them on the fields of ordinary farmers who have successfully adopted the technology. These are farmers who face...
The CFU is organizing over 5,000 Field days between March and April, held on adopters fields. These showcase what CF can do under ordinary resource and weather conditions. The Schedule attached has thousands of small Field days listed, as well as larger Field days hosted...