{"id":45578,"date":"2022-04-02T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/fourteen-agronomists-complete-courses-on-conservation-agriculture\/"},"modified":"2022-04-05T12:55:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T12:55:09","slug":"fourteen-agronomists-complete-courses-on-conservation-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/fourteen-agronomists-complete-courses-on-conservation-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourteen agronomists complete courses on conservation agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The graduates who are part of a cohort of 18 students who began courses in October 2020 will impart acquired knowledge and skills to colleagues at respective institutions. <\/p>\n<p>The courses were tailor-made to promote conservation agriculture rooted on three main principles including; minimum tillage and soil disturbance, permanent soil cover with crop residues and live mulches, and intercropping. <\/p>\n<p>Graduates have revealed that acquired knowledge will be helpful to carry out their assignments smoothly, train colleagues on best practices in agriculture to make the sector much more relevant and to national economy without soil and environmental degradation.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have acquired enough skills related to high-yielding agriculture with no devastating impact to the soil and the environment. We also learnt how to impart skills to the elderly involved in agriculture. We usually grow crops after tilling all places of the garden yet the best technique is to dig a hole in which the seed should be planted,\u201d said Richard Makuza.  <\/p>\n<p>Jacqueline Iradukunda working with the Association of Baptist Churches in Rwanda (AEBR) in Gasabo District  has also underscored that acquired knowledge will be imparted to colleagues with a view to make agriculture more meaningful to farmers and the country at large.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe training equipped us with adequate knowledge in soil conservation relevant to increase agricultural yields,\u201d she noted. <\/p>\n<p>John Twiringiyumukiza, a technical advisor at Tearfund and Canadian Foodgrains Bank in central Africa also reminisced on the training\u2019s relevance and assured support. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe trained agronomists and partners with a view to build their capacities to fast track development and efforts aimed at achieving food sufficiency. They received intensive training package on conservation agriculture, particularly climate change resilient agriculture and how to acquaint elderly farmers with skills to adopt best agricultural techniques to increase yields,\u201d he said.       <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope that they will pass knowledge to colleagues to join efforts geared towards enhancing conservation agriculture, and exploiting the soil to the maximum to play a big role to farmers\u2019 economic growth and  sustainably achieve food sufficiency. We shall stay closer to them to make the program a success,\u201d added Twiringiyumukiza.  <\/p>\n<p>Jean de Dieu Nizeyimbabazi, the Director of Agriculture and Natural Resources Unit in Burera District urged graduates to work with districts to streamline budget plan and solve farmers\u2019 problems.   <\/p>\n<p>The training was organized by Tearfund on the funding of Canadian Foodgrains Bank and other partners including Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), African Evangelical Enterprise (AEE), PND and AEBR.  <\/p>\n<p>The graduation ceremony which took place on Thursday 31st March 2022 was attended by representatives from Tearfund and partners, religious denominations, government officials and non-governmental organizations.  <\/p>\n<p>Canadian Foodgrains Bank and Tearfund\u2019s program to train agronomists on conservation agriculture has been already rolled out in Ethiopia where it has proved success in turning arable land more productive.   <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41693 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/aba_2.jpg\" alt=\"One of graduates receiving certificate of completion. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41695 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/aba_4-2.jpg\" alt=\"The ceremony took place on Thursday 31st March 2022. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41691 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/aba1-2.jpg\" alt=\"The training was organized by Tearfund on the funding of Canadian Foodgrains Bank and other partners.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41694 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/aba_3-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41692 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abasoje_amasf455-3e86b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A total of 14 agronomists from different public institutions and organizations operating in Rwanda have graduated from a two-year Master Training Course on Conservation Agriculture and Facilitation Skills and urged to catalyze economic development rooted on agriculture.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-45578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45578"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=45578"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=45578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}