28 April 2008
Huambo — A workshop on good practices in agriculture and cattle-breeding starts Monday in the hall of the Agrarian Sciences Faculty (FCA), which will last two days, ANGOP has learnt.
The workshop, promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture in partnership with the World Vision and FAO, aims at creating an environment to present, analyse and discuss methodologies to answer effectively and in a sustainable and timely way the needs of the producers involved in family agriculture systems.
According to a programme that ANGOP has had access to, in the first session will be discussed issues linked to organisation in rural environment, cooperatives, rural extension, associations law, field schools as an extension tool, and good practices diffusion.
In the second session, topics like farming production, methods of controlling the Newcastle disease called "Ochiefu", utilisation of farming residues in order to improve the soil, low cost irrigation systems, good practices in selecting and conserving seeds, among others.
The lectures will be presented by agronomists, veterinarians and a lawyer, with participation of farmers, cattle-breeders and students.
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