Bio-diversity

Mpaba project is located in Mlambatema village ,ward 4 of Umzingwane district.This is a dry area and food production is only possible where practises of land are ecologically friendly to help sustain the land. Mpaba project was supported by the Forestry Commission especially in ensuring that the project takes off. The other stakeholders that provided them support include Jekesa Pfungwa, DNR, AREX and the Umzingwane Rural District Council. It is hoped that agroforestry will maximise yields per unit of land . PROJECT OBJECTIVES -To ensure that every unit area is put to its potential use giving optimum returns at any given rate -To improve the degenerated environment by ensuring that land is efficiently utilised -To conserve the soil , and water resource by consolidating production systems within the same unit area -To improve the standard of living of the people PROJECT ACTIVITIES i) Designing and producing a constitution to guide them in their operations ii) Conducting a geophysical survey and borehole driilling iii) Environmental and ecological agroforestry production of fruit trees iv) Horticultural training and technical training in forest products and enrichment planting v) Beekeping and honey production PROJECT PARTICPANTS The members are drawn from Mlambatema village. PROJECT RESULTS The community is expected to benefit in the following way -supply fruits and tree seedlings from the project area to surrounding communities - supply various vegetables to surrounding communities -improve standards of living through selling of fruits and vegetables. -acquire skills in agroforestry

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