The Food Plant Solution guide has been very useful in supporting our sustainable program. The organization of the guide is well structured and easy to understand. Most specifically it has:
- Helped in creation of awareness to our farmers on the values indigenous foods that have more nutritive values, drought tolerant, higher income.
- Provided information on sustainable diet where mix farming applies. In this regard, farmers have been trained to have varieties of crops so that they can access food throughout and reduce the risks of crop failures in case of drought or pests & diseases attack.
- Helped in soil and water conservation and farmers have been encouraged to recycle farm wastes as form of soil and water conservation hence buffer soil fertility resulting to increase production. At the same time has encouraged farmers to mulch their crop during dry spell to preserve water and later form part of soil fertility.
Farmers have established kitchen gardens to address food security for improved nutrition, use local seeds especially indigenous vegetable seeds for future generation and also to reduce cost of production.”