BENEFITS OF SEED GROWING

HAPPY MULOLANI Anita Nakonde, is a seed grower, who has commends SAPP for promoting seed multiplication, through seed growing, as it has really boosted beans production and provision of pure seed to the farming community in the area. Nakonde says more farmers in the area have realised the importance of using pure seed, taking into account the increased yields and profitability. ‘’My production levels have increased after engaging in growing pure seed and it turns out profitable to sale pure seed than in the past, when I used recycled seed,’’says Nakonde. She said that she plans on increasing her area under cultivation, from half a lima to one lima the forth-coming season. Nakonde encourages her fellow women farmers to seriously consider embarking on seed multiplication. It is a known fact that most of agriculture production is carried out by women yet the benefits tend to trickle to men, this is the more reason why Nakonde’s advsie is timely in empowering women farmers to seriously take up the task of seed growing and provision to the farming community in the area. What is encouraging the availability of a readily available, which has often been a source of worry for the farmers to take up enterprises that would benefit them.