AGRICULTURAL PROGRAM

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Agriculture make 80% of Cameroons GNP but currently, it is facing challenges such as dwindling in crop and livestock yields due to declining soil fertility, poor seeds/breeds, crude management techniques and an increase in family farms which makes cultivation problematic since family land distributed is not cultivated at the same time and purpose in the face of increasing population thus pushing farmers (especially the rural poor) to resort to farming methods that increase yields at the wrong use of synthetic fertilizers/ pesticides, extending of farmland by clearing down forest lands and overgrazing.

While such processes improve on the short-term food availability for some Households in Cameroon, they demand high external inputs that often are not affordable for most rural farming population. There is often inadequate knowledge in using the external inputs (when available and affordable). This leads to direct environmental hazards (e.g water pollution/contamination) or health problems (e.g Food Poisoning.)

Overall objective of the program

To promote sustainable agriculture among the rural communities of Cameroon through the use of new techniques in framing.

Program components

• Provision of cultivation tools, post-harvest facilities and farm inputs to farming groups.
• Training farming community leaders and unemployed youths on sustainable farming methods.
• Supporting farming groups with microcredit to enable them establish their own farms and train their community members.

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