Female farmers set to benefit from sweet potato project

Name: Female farmers set to benefit from sweet potato project

Name of publication: The Sundaymail

Name of Journalist: Sundaymail Reporter

Date: 9-15 September 2012

Country: Zimbabwe

Theme: Business; Agriculture

Skills: Portrayal

Genre: News

Gem classification: Gender Aware

Description
More than 3,000 female farmers are set to benefit from a new project that seeks to hap them market sweet potatoes internationally. The initiative, run by Women in Agribusiness in sub-Saharan Africa Alliance (Wasaa) and Simfresh International, is aimed jet empowering women through agriculture. Addressing delegates to a Wasaa stake holders’ conference in Harare last week. Simfresh International managing director Mr Morestaff Chibanda said women have for a long time been sidelined despite their vast contribution to the sector. He said many of them lost farming interest as a results adding that his firm would soon roll out training programmes. ‘We have identified a ready market for sweet potatoes Lathe region and in Europe. Our task now is fat the women to produce and meet the export standards’, he said

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