LIPS-Zim empowers smallholder farmers

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FODDER crops such as velvet bean (mucuna pruriens) and lab-lab (lablab purpureus) have bolstered subsistence farmers such as Edson Mbedzi of Chamnangana village, Beitbridge district in Matabeleland South.

Mbedzi is one of the 390 famers who received fodder seed and technical assistance through the Livestock Production Systems in Zimbabwe (LIPS-Zim) project this year. He said he had moved from only producing fodder-based feed for his livestock to commercialised hay bale production by producing more for sale during dry period.

Read full article on LIPS-Zim empowers smallholder farmers - The Zimbabwe Independent (newsday.co.zw)

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Thandeka Matebesi