SMALLHOLDER farmers working with 9 NGOs belonging to the Zimbabwe – Adding Value to Sustainable Agriculture Produce (ZAVSAP) network, will hold a Processed Products Fair, the first in the country, on July 14th 2010. The ZAVSAP Processed Products Fair will be held inside the Nelson Mandela Hall at the Harare Showground, from 10am to 3.30pm.

Introduction
The Zimbabwean office of Volens Africa (Volens) contacted Practical Action Consulting (PAC) with an interest in PAC facilitating visit for its partners to develop skills and knowledge on honey processing. This visit allowed a more informal environment for training, a ‘Look and Learn’ visit, while focusing on some key learning objectives, as follows:

18 August 2009 at Kufunda Learning Village
Participants: 17 farmers from the larger Ruwa Community
Facilitation by William Chigumaira (Agri-Biotech)

Purpose
To do a refresher course on sweet potato nursery and field production inclusive of cassava production then distribute the sweet potato vines (cassava cuttings to follow later).

27-28 April 2009, at Kufunda Learning Village, Ruwa
Report by Agri-Biotech

A workshop on sweet potato nursery production as well as field production was held for two days at Kufunda Village by Agri-Biotech on the 27th to the 28th of April.

The first day of the training was on the principles of setting up a nursery for sweet potatoes. These were well appreciated by the participants because in most years, their production of the crop has been limited by the lack of enough planting material. The knowledge gained on how they can get planting material ready before the rainy season in abundance was appreciated.