COMMUNITY AGRO-ECOLOGY AND CLIMATE-SMART CENTRE
What is it?
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Our flagship community-based climate-smart resource center aims to empower the community with training facilities, demonstration kits and infrastructure. The Community Climate-Smart Centre seeks to capacitate smallholder farmers towards sustainable agriculture, poverty eradication, environment protection and employment creation.
Why?
Mvurwi community is a predominantly a farming community. Close to 99% of the farmers are smallholder farmers. While the farmers are eager and have great soil with which to work, they often lack entrepreneurial and technical agriculture skills, information, sustainable markets, and capital.
Who?
The Community Climate-Smart Center assists smallholder and family farmers with special attention being given to young farmers and women farmers.
How?
Facilities are located on a 14 hectare piece of land, including:
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Training and conference facilities to accommodate up to 300
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Agricultural library with internet facility
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Sustainable agriculture demonstration kits
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20 Greenhouses (measuring 30m X 14m)
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26 Fish ponds
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Piggery, Poultry, and Apiary facilities
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Tree nursery, Vermiculture, Liquid manure tanks, Organic agriculture, Bio digester, Mushroom Growing Houses , Farm fresh produce kiosk, Drip irrigation, 3 solar powered boreholes, Solar driers, Grading sheds and 600m irrigation canal.
Additionally, we are offering a 9 month practical training in Sustainable Agricultural Entrepreneurship, Agro-ecology and Natural Resources Management.”
Where?
The Community Climate-Smart Center is located in Ward 28 of Mazowe Rural District of Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe.