Green agriculture in Africa

West Africa started the project launched by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), building an agriculture with a diverse product.

More than 100,000 farmers have participated in this farming method including Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal. In the next 5 years, if invested 40 million dollars, half a million households will jointly implement this project.

West African countries will build an agriculture with diverse products.
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The new project is a community-based agricultural program to implement ecological farming methods that limit the use of pesticides and the use of organic fertilizers.

FAO William Settle, a senior technical officer, announced that he would train farmers on environmentally friendly farming methods, significantly increasing productivity so that they could get higher incomes.

In the course of training, a group of 25 farmers will be trained, divided into 2 groups of practice on 2 village plots. One group used traditional farming methods, while the other implemented the method proposed by FAO experts and thought it best suited local plants and local circumstances. It will then compare the harvest results on the two plots as a lesson for farmers to draw on specific lessons.

Farmers who participate in the training will be trained on the method of land reclamation, replacing chemical pesticides, marketing products and standards of food safety. FAO said that the program could expand to 500,000 farmers five years later with a total cost of $ 30 to $ 40 million.

The project is drawn from the consequences of the use of high toxicity pesticides and large doses, thus adversely affecting the environment, economy, production and community health as well as agricultural export ability. product.