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Organic Farming

Mr Delo Nzila, an organic farmer in Bbombo area of Monze district using Musangu trees and maize stalks to improve fertility of soil in his field. If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn’t organic produce just be called ‘produce’ and make the pesticide laden stuff take the burden of an adjective? Anyways, that is just the way it is… Zambia is a country with a significant population engaged in farming. Our ancestors used efficient methods to do farming, and they were happy in practising farming, but today days have arrived where a farmer does not want his upcoming generation to do farming. Farmer’s suicide has become a major concern. Now, the question arises why our ancestors were prosperous farmers, whereas farmers of today are not. A reason might be climate change, increase in temperature, and so on, but the main reason for farmers’ failure is the type of farming techniques that farmers are using nowadays. The story starts from 1960’s green revolution, the time when the coun