PARTNERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE RICE SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: ‘SUCCESS STORY’
At 63 Zablon learns new ways of rice farming, expects to double his production
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“I’ve been a farmer all my life. I had not received any training in agriculture,
but only using my local knowledge.” says Yohana Zablon (63) a smallholder
farmer from Njage Village in Kilombero District, Morogoro region in Eastern
Tanzania.
“A few months ago I was approached by some members of Tupendane
Youth Group in our village, who had just come back from a training in rice
farming. They went around the village inviting people to go and learn from
their demonstration plots. At first I was not interested, but with their
insistence, I decided to pay a visit to the demo plots,” he recalls.