Smallholder agric-food systems gets boost | Land Portal
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August 2020
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Smallholder farmers are an important piece in the country’s agriculture puzzle and attainment of food security.

With the globe facing looming food security issues, the smallholder farmers are and have always been stakeholders not be left behind.

Yes, we cannot talk food security without inputs from the small scale farmers. They need to be incorporated in every step, as the country takes baby steps initiatives towards being self sufficient. 

For subsistence farmer to feed his/her household and supply extra to neighbours is a starting point, towards being a self sufficient a nation.

More smallholder farmers should be tagged along in improving the country’s agric-food systems.

News of a five-year Development of Smart Innovation through Research in Agriculture (DeSIRA) project expected to scale up operations of smallholder farmers.

It is indeed high time that we move our small scale farmers from archaic methods of farming to the modern ways of doing things, which is likely to give them more yields with less labour input.

 

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The Agri-Malawi Magazine is an agricultural focused publication with dynamic online platform with its editorial office based in Blantyre, Malawi with a great network of representative writers and journalist across major cities in the country.

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The Agri-Malawi Magazine is an agricultural focused publication with dynamic online platform with its editorial office based in Blantyre, Malawi with a great network of representative writers and journalist across major cities in the country.

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