Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre (KATC)

Kasisi Agricultural Training College teaches farmers to maintain a small kitchen gardens that can grow the fruit and vegetables needed for a healthy diet.

Photo: Sean Sprague

The Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre is located just south of Lusaka and helps to retrain rural subsistance farmers in organic agriculture.

The training focuses on conservation farming that promotes sustainable, low-input drought resistant farming techniques. These methods do not rely on chemical fertilisers that pollute the ground and cost farmers money.

It is hoped that the farmers will then play a part in reducing food insecurity within their own communities.

As well as training farmers on how to grow organically the project also teaches how the non-edible parts of plants can be used to feed livestock to help produce meat for families and also manure for the fields.

SCIAF

Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund

Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre (KATC)