Around 1,250 farmers were assisted by Gorongosa National Park through the provision of 30 tons of seeds of various crops, such as maize, peanuts, sesame, beans and others.
According to the newspaper Profundus, the PNG has also contributed to the Sustainable Livelihood Development Program (SLDP) to increase agricultural production, improve nutrition rates, provide quality water and basic sanitation in the environment, initiatives to promote sexual and reproductive health; GiveDirect - allocating money directly to communities through mobile accounts without going through local bureaucracy, indirectly encouraging the purchase of seed and cleaning in the fields for timely production, as well as meeting other needs.
Citing the "State of play of the 2023-2024 agricultural campaign", the newspaper indicates in the report that the district faces the problems of selling agricultural reserves and insufficient other sources of income. These factors are also driven by insufficient alternative resources for drought mitigation; lack of food diversification; imposition of partners by donors; insufficient skills in other areas.
Adamo Ossumane, the district administrator, reiterated that the priority now is how to create a balance between the communities in agricultural production.
"There are places that have achieved practically nothing in terms of agricultural results," said Ossumane.
For the second agricultural season, Nhamatanda's document suggests supplying and distributing 457.7 tons of seeds to the 27,167 families affected, technical assistance (training in intelligent agriculture); including community and religious leaders in the formation and strengthening of agricultural marketing committees; creating community-based economic strengthening groups (savings groups); raising awareness of not selling food reserves; raising awareness of food diversification, nutritional education; sharing the most vulnerable areas with partners, and creating small businesses, community fairs to market local products, intensifying agro-processing.
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