Conservation Farming Unit (CFU)
Conservation Farming & Climate Smart Agriculture
Written by Rosie
Take the Opportunity to Attend One of Over 4,000 Conservation Farming 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 been planted with CF techniques are thriving, and that CF is not […]
Written by Rosie
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 large scale – training over 150,000 people a year […]
Written by Rosie
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 a partnership with MTN and Viamo Inc, to put […]
Written by Rosie
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 well as senior members and Provincial Representatives of the […]
Written by Rosie
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 combined with Conservation Farming practices. Bayer provided the inputs for […]
Written by alfeyo katebe
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.
Written by Rosie
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 Field Day if you can. It’s a […]
Written by Rosie
CFU COLLABORATES WITH PARTNER ORGANISATIONS TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL LITERACY TRAINING TO FARMERS Since late 2018 the CFU has been collaborating with several partner organizations to bring financial literacy training and farming as a business to farmers in its operational areas. It has collaborated in this with GIZ; with the bilaterally funded Zambian-German Agricultural Knowledge Training […]
Written by alfeyo katebe
TRAINING OF TRACTOR OPERATORS AND OWNERS ON OPTIMUM MIN-TILL SERVICE PROVISION During the main training season (June to October/November) each year, the main thrust of the CFU’s efforts goes into organizing and supervising the training of hundreds of thousands of farmers on how to do CA, whether they are hoe farmers or farmers who have […]
Written by Rosie
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 drought of the 2018/19 season in Southern Province, had […]
