We are pretty busy throughout the year – here are some of the events or happenings on our radar.
Add Your Heading Text Here TAKE THE OPPOURTUNITY TO ATTEND ONE OF OVER 4,000 CF FIELD DAYS BEING HELD THIS FEBRUARY AND MARCH ON ADOPTERS FIELDS Zambia has enjoyed a good rainy season, and fields are full of strong crops. It is evident that crops that have...
Since 2016 the CFU has been conducting rigorous monitoring and evaluation exercises to determine our impact as an organization on the ground, and what the adoption of Conservation Farming practices can bring to a farmer’s fortunes.The CFU has been working on the ground at a...
Like everyone else in these tumultuous Covid 19 times, the CFU is working hard to try and keep achieving its aims – much of which revolve around getting the farmers of Zambia trained on Conservation Farming and putting it into practice. We recently embarked upon...
Zambia’s Ministry of Agriculture, the Conservation Farming Unit and WWF jointly hosted Zambia’s first Conservation Agriculture Indaba on February 25th and 26th in Lusaka.The aim of the two-day Indaba was to bring together as many of the independent organizations actively promoting CA in Zambia as...
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...