Model Farmers Equipped With Motorised Thresher Machines And Fertiplus Fertilizer!
In regard to ensure agro mechanised agriculture, boosting food and income security as well as unlocking 2040 middle income status; Mbale district continues to empower farmers through government programs to thrive at household level. The selected farmers from the 14 sub counties and 3 town councils received a demonstration training courtesy of MAAIF under the coffee department today. The demonstration took place at the district works department before the handover ceremony. 10 Rice motorised thresher machines and 732 bags of Fertiplus fertilizer from Agriculture Value Chain Project (AVCP) were issued to selected farmers across the entire district. An appeal to farmers from Mutuwa Regina Mabonga representing CAO was a call to desist from selling the fertilizer and other equipment but focus on modern farming so that poverty is reduced at family levels. The district chairperson, Mafabi Muhammad in his remarks affirmed to farmers that the extens...