Goster to attend Field Production course in Lilongwe

Henry Goster, Get Up Stand Up Project Coordinator, leaves Monday, 15 October for Lilongwe to attend a “Field Production” course at the Natural Resources College for two weeks.

“I expect to learn more about field production techniques and farming group dynamics so that I am able to help the farmers to be self reliant in two years time,” says Henry.

Henry Goster, Get Up Stand Up Project Coordinator

The course, financed by CMB-LAMA has been in fact organized in order to achieve leading skills in agriculture to guide the 17 groups of farmers under the Get Up Stand Up Project.

The microcredit project provides about 200 farmers with agriculture inputs in the villages around Balaka.

After finishing the mapping phase in which all farmers and fields were registered, the project will procede with contracts stipulation with each farmer who will access fertilizers in the month of November, just in time before the beginning of the rainy season.

Meanwhile, credit recovery from different groups is on going and the staff is visiting fields, advising farmers on field clearing and ridges making. The program designed by Henry Goster includes the visit to the following farmer groups in the next two weeks:

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