We are pretty busy throughout the year – here are some of the events or happenings on our radar.
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...
The CFU partnered with MRI/Syngenta and PEPZ late before the rains to bring maize seed treated against Fall Army Worm to 1,480 of the CFU’s Lead Farmers. The lucky farmers received 4kgs of MRI seed that was treated with Fortenza Duo, designed to protect the...
The CFU provided support to the ZNFU and other partners to launch the 2018 Planting Season on November 15th at Chief Chibwika’s in Mwinilunga. His Excellency the President of Zambia, Edgar Lungu, who graced the event, stated that CA was the way forward for improved productivity...
Immediately following the launch of the 2018 Planting Season, at which the importance of CA was heavily stressed, the President of Zambia, His Excellency Edgar Lungu commissioned the CFU, along with other Seed and Equipment partners, to use CA Minimum Tillage to prepare his farm...