After conducting a series of Famer Field School (FFS) capacity building sessions for the agricultural extension workers the past two months, the Malawi Watershed Services Improvement Project (MWASIP) has intensified monitoring visits to various project catchment areas aimed at monitoring the extent to which training has impacted the farmers.
According to MWASIP Technical Team Member Oswald Mulenga, the past soil and water conservation focused trainings were organised with the aim of helping agricultural extension workers to consequently empower the farmers to improve their production while also utilising the land sustainably.
He said: “agricultural extension workers were trained in technologies like contour ridging, box ridges, swale, infiltration pits, contour stone bunds, stone check dams, and bushwood check dams which control runoff and promote infiltration of waters into the soil among others.”
MWASIP is currently conducting monitoring visits of the farmer field schools trainings in the districts of Zomba, Blantyre and Neno. The project is a six year one with funding from the World Bank.