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Small Scale Farm Management for Success
Even with zero experience you can attain food security, wealth creation and sustainability.
Fundamentals of Farmsteading
For beginner and struggling smallholder farmers.
For those wanting to manage their farmsteads better and get out of the farmer's poverty trap, this is for you! Decide to attain comprehensive food security, grow and secure your assets, and sustainably be productive for yourself as you build your legacy.
Learn how to adapt to and mitigate the ever changing environmental, socioeconomic, and market uncertainties Zambia is experiencing today. You will be able to identify your challenges, evaluate them and reprioritize your strategies for your own personal farmstead goals of success.
- Are you a struggling farm or plot owner?
- Do you wonder how others are successful but not you?
- Need help to alleviate the unnecessary stress and get some peace?
Don't know what to do or where to begin?
Farmsteading, smallholder farming, small scale farming, however you term it, has been marketed in Zambia for decades as a susbsitence survival poverty net. However, over the decades, given the way it is managed by farmers and the various sectors of society, and the misconceptions sensationalised, it has become more of a poverty trap.
Some people say farming is the quickest way to lose your money. And they are right. Farming if not done right can be a money pit. We have seen several people having all the assets they need to be be successful farmers still lose everything all the same. We have seen some start from nothing and become very successful. Still some fluctuate between being successful and losing everything, one moment they are up and the next they are down. It's one reason they call farming a gamble. But to be honest, what work isn't a gamble. Even formal employment with a solid contract can end just like that. So we need to look at farming differently, with the respect it deserves.
Farmsteading is a profession and it is also a lifestyle. Like any profession or lifestyle, it has fundamental approaches to ensure success. Small scale farming has not been effectively synonymous with attaining food security, wealth or sustainability. Instead it is labelled a poor man's resort to survival. In addition it has been labelled a peaceful retirement plan for the elderly. I have known many poor only get poorer and elderly not have any peace in their farming ventures. Their own children and grandchildren sadly have sold off inherited assets not wanting to end up like their parents and grandparents. Understandable, as legacy farming is not a concept efficiently championed in Zambia.
I have also seen how small scale farmers refuse to get out of poverty and wear the poverty title proudly on their sleeves. Either poverty alleviation is too much work, or only for the learned, or only for the wealthy. Yes, these are among the excuses I have come across working with small scale farmers. Some go further and say that they have personal challenges that prevent them from succeeding.
However, Zambia is better positioned for success than most southern African countries by way of resources, farmer support frameworks, the socio-economic environment, land ownership and legal systems etc.
I know this is an unpopular opinion and it most certainly does not dismiss those farmers genuinely going through personal challenges. However, what excuse do we really have for not becoming successful small scale farmers? From what I have witnessed, experienced and learned from those before me about small scale farming, I do not think we have a pass on this one. We are our own worst enemy for success.
It is evident that small scale farmers in Zambia should be among the wealthiest farmers in the world!
So what are we doing wrong?
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Zambia's non-declining levels of food insecurity, poverty and unsustainability are clear indicators of a struggling economy. These indicators lead to other indicators and form vicious cycles of repetitive ineffective approaches to small scale farming. If the majority of Zambians are practicing small scale farming, and the majority of Zambians are living in poverty, then suffice to say, we are in trouble.
The only way to feed a growing population is to keep growing food, feed, fiber and fuel but better. Many Zambians, farmer or not, know how to grow and keep things. You could say it's a cultural right of passage to learn how to grow or keep something. I can't give much credit to the schools as Production Units are not what they used to be as in the 1980s. In fact nothing is. And that is why I wonder why we keep practicing Small Scale farming as we used to and like it's a religion. When shall we actually show innovation, not disguised old methods.
Poverty is an entity like a person, institution, place or energy.
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Learn how to build
sustainable food security and wealth with
Dragon Fruit Growing...
Even with zero experience you can make at least a million kwacha in one season!
Learn how to build
sustainable food security and wealth with
Dragon Fruit Growing...
Even with zero experience you can make at least a million kwacha in one season!
Learn how to build
sustainable food security and wealth with
Dragon Fruit Growing...
Even with zero experience you can make at least a million kwacha in one season!
