Choma
District Commissioner Golden Nyambe says the changing climate and variability
in rainfall pattern has in recent times negatively impacted on Southern
Province’s food production.
Mr Nyambe
says there is need for farmers to begin practicing integrated soil fertility
management and diversification as well as recommended production practices if
they are to improve on food production.
He
disclosed that the current greater negative impact on agriculture caused by
climate change has been directly or indirectly brought by deforestation which
is a major emerging problem in the province.
The
District Commissioner said this when he officiated at a farmers' field day at
Mochipapa Agricultural Research Station in Choma under the theme "building
on today ‘ s prosperity through provision of decentralized agricultural
research ".
“Farmers
are important to the economic development and social being of this country,” he
said.
Mr Nyambe
said agriculture is the main activity done in the province and that is the
reason why Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI) is working towards
poverty reduction in the province.
“These
researchers will bring their work to your door steps so that every district is
serviced by researchers as it is in line with PF manifesto on agriculture,” he
said.
He
explained that the province is too vast in terms of farming system and agro
environmental areas hence the need for ZARI to put up more research stations
across the province.
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