Bio-diversity

Every tribe has traditional food crops as the Chagga do, but due to increase modernization many tribes tend to move away from their traditional foods, for Kiilimanjaro the disappearing of traditonal food crops is increasing to a level that needs attention. Most of these crops required a well conserved land and agro-forestry practice, which is disappearing due to increased population and other economic factors. It has been noted that these crops have high health value. Together with COMPACT, Lyamkara Environmental and Cultural Heritage Promotion Association (LECHPA) will work to propagate these crops for cultivation by communities around Mt Kilimanjaro for biodiversity conservation. This NGOs will also plant trees to conserve the water sources passing in farms, which participate in this project to improve their land. Those farmers will aslo receive on farm crop management training, which will allow them to increase crop varieties in the farm at the same time increasing yield.

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