ZAMGROW to Train 380 Extension Officers on Climate Smart Agriculture Technologies

In the Eastern Province, the Zambia Growth Opportunities Programme for Results (Zamgrow) has started training agricultural extension officers in Climate-Smart Agriculture technologies This is in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture.

The trained officers will later train about 38,000 lead farmers, who will then train follower farmers in the province.

Eastern province agricultural officer Dr Ardeen Nansungwe officially opened the Zamgrow training of trainers for extension officers in the Kasanengwa and Lumezi districts. 

Nansungwe told the trainee farmers, “We are studying with you to upgrade your knowledge, so please let’s pay attention to whatever you're taught here so that you can utilise it in your own districts.”

“Officers are being trained with the view to go and train farmers in their respective camps where they are coming from, so the target is that for each camp, we will train 100 farmers”, added Bernard Chungu, Senior Irrigation Engineer and one of the instructors of the Climate Agriculture Training.

Emmanual Fulani, Senior agricultural officer for the Lumezi district, told ZNBC, “The rainfall has been very erratic, and we are receiving less rain than usual. Through the interventions, I'm sure our farmers, despite having this problem of climate change, can still continue to produce and also be able to hold the food secure.”