Agriculture
Blantyre farmers market promotes organic farming
July 12, 2021 / Bester Kayaye
Panthunzi Eco-Solutions, the organisers of the Blantyre Farmers Market says they intend to utilize the monthly event for the promotion of organic farming.
Project Director Chris Walker says the Farmer’s Market will soon be hosting a number of activities including mobilizing people into a network that will produce home grown food using organic farming practices.
“We are looking at starting a Blantyre Urban Food Production Network of home grown food with organic farming and permaculture as means of food of production,” says Walker adding that the monthly Farmers Market event will provide a marketplace for local producers, as well as inspiring and motivating local producers and associations.
The Director says the permaculture concept was adopted from the system of how forests exists in biodiversity and interconnection, “so this place is about that as we tend to bring people together in a relaxed and open environment.”
According to Walker, it is much healthier to practice organic farming compared to inorganic especially to consumers of the produce because no chemicals are applied to crops.
“All along we have promoted organic farming because the current farming practices involves the application of a lot of chemicals to crops which is unhealthy to people eating it,” he explains pointing out that they further intend to promote the Made-In-Malawi concept since all products displayed at the Market pavilions will be locally produced.
Panthunzi Eco-Solutions will also promote entrepreneurship skills amongst participants by conducting business management workshops emphasising on marketing.
“We will train vendors in marketing so that they have relevant techniques on how to keep attracting clients even when they are not attending the farmers market.”
Walker, however, notes that Covid-19 and lack of disposable income for buyers are suffocating market performance because patronage at the event, especially for tourists, who attend the event in large numbers, has been greatly affected.
Established in 2018, the Blantyre Famers Market is supported by Panthunzi Eco-Solutions in partnership with The Truss Project. It is hosted at Glass house located in the outskirts of Blantyre Central Business district, along M1 road in Kabula.
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