From Communal to Commercial Farmer

The idea of Communal to Commercial Farmer (C to C) is to create an opportunity for communal farmers to learn modern commercial farming techniques so they can transform themselves from being subsistence farmers to becoming commercial farmers, maximizing their yields.

• By securing a good farming business, the farmers can get out of poverty and they become contributors to the overall economy of their societies.
  
  
  
• Another aim of the training is to educate the farmers in practicing sustainable farming, since this is a prerequisite for the long term sustainability of their farm and the environment of which they are part.

As a Development Instructor, some of your task will be:

Working with the community to promote cooperation and development

You will work with the people in the community and its key players to promote development.

 

 

Participate in the weekly meetings

You will listen, learn and contribute, and you may also give lessons and presentations. It may also involve carrying out campaigns.

 

 

Working with the community to increase awareness on Water Efficient Systems and Environmental issues

Provide technical and practical where skills are needed and a lot of training of the farmers. You will organise educative field days or work to get Partnerships to establish tree nurseries and organise actions to plant the trees.

 

 

Vegetable gardens

You will encourage each family to grow a vegetable garden. Establish good model gardens; promote the most nutritious vegetables and herbs and secure that the best varieties are used. Teach nutrition and organize garden days.

 

 

Model plots

You will promote good agricultural practices such as crop diversification, crop rotation, cover crops and inter cropping, and pot hold planting. You will promote cooperation among the farmers.

 

 

Assisting the project leader with administration, communication, information and public relations

Write articles for the project’s bi‐monthly newsletter, make the layout and print it.

Receive visitors and show them around the project, ensuring that donors and partners take with them a good impression and a good understanding of the project.

You will assist in the project’s record‐keeping, produce statistics and analyze the information gathered, and you will write reports.

You may also be involved in developing the cooperation with government workers and NGO's in the district and work to get Partnerships and funds from local donors.

 

 

 

You will work with:

• Farmers
• Project Workers

To learn more about the project please,

ask for more information at the school of your interest.