MVIWATA A National Network of Smallholder Farmers Groups in Tanzania conducted a five days as the beginning of its long campaign to engage more youths in sustainable agriculture sector. This was deliberately done in Morogoro Rural District to nine (9) villages of Kisaki, Kinole, Gwata, Mikese, Mkambarani, Mngazi, Dutumi, BwakiraChini, and Kiroka. In these villages 26 youth groups were identified having different sustainable agricultural/livestock keeping activities with 464 (240 female, 224 males) youth members.
The objective of this activity was to identify the youth groups, activity in targeted villages and support the rural youth group’s participation in sustainable agriculture activities, their access to sustainable production systems, access to reasonable financial services and marketing access to agricultural produces in order to creating self-employments to youths and mitigate rural-urban migration among youths leading to their minimal involvement in sustainable agriculture.
MVIWATA is mobilizing youths in groups for easy provision of trainings and awareness skills purposely to engage more youth in sustainable agricultural value chain. The trainings to these youth groups will include the necessity to affordable financial services like Village Community Banks (VICOBA), Group dynamics, MVIWATA membership and sustainable agricultural production systems.
