The picture above show part of the group members working in the garden
The group sold their produce to OK Mart, local retail outlets and Masvingo’s major farmer’s market popularly known as Chitima. The women have diversified into Internal Savings and Lending’s project after realising some money from the sale of tomatoes. CGCDZ intends to capacitate the group through providing training in Internal Savings and Lending’s.
The solar powered borehole that CGCDZ drilled to support the Ruwara Cooperative fish project. The borehole has become a perennial source of clean drinking water to over forty households in the village.
Ruwara Cooperative’s horticulture project in Mhene village ward 12 of Nemanwa under Chief Charumbira, bears fruit after a bumper tomato harvest. Through the partnership and support from Centre for Gender and Community Development in Zimbabwe (CGCDZ), the community group made their dream a reality. CGCDZ assisted the group of twenty-one partners (15 females and 6 males) with resources that is fence and fencing material as well as provided business and technical skills.
The cooperative members harvested three hundred and seventy (370) by twenty litre buckets of tomatoes from their business venture which they sold to various markets in Masvingo. The group comprising fifteen (15) female and six (6) male each pocketed a minimum of nine hundred and fifty Zimbabwe dollars during the harvesting month.
The community partners secured 0.25 hectares of land for the garden adjacent to the borehole which CGCDZ had drilled to support the fish project they were undertaking. The community partners mooted the idea of a nutrition garden after realising abundance and under-utilizedwater from the solar powered and labour effective borehole drilled by CGCDZ. The unintended outcome of sinking the borehole was that it became a source of safe clean water to forty (40) households in Mhene Village who relied on the unprotected source.
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I would like to find out more about Farmers Delight. Can I have a contact number for someone on the executive . I’m based in Bulawayo.
Max Mliswa
+263 392261 263 thats the landline number you can get through and connect with Mr Vengesa or Mr Mudadi.