Ulimi Irrigation

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Ulimi Irrigation

Helping people grow enough food to see them through the year. We are finding sustainable solutions for better food production and environmental protection.
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We intend to supply highly efficient water pumps, each powered by seven solar panels to pump water from the lake into the fields. We will then provide local landowners and farmers custom irrigation systems to suit their needs, generally using sprinkler systems or drip irrigation. This will allow them to increase their food growing potential four-fold from 3 months a year to 12 months. A condition

of using the irrigation system will be for the farmers to vary the types of food they grow. Maize can be grown on half their plot but the rest of the land has to be used for a mixture of other vegetables including tomoatos, carrots, peppers, potatoes and beans. This will dramatically reduce food prices in the surrounding area, as well as providing jobs on the farms and helping to improve lives in the community. With an excess of food in this area the community will be able to export food to other areas in the country that are further from the lake. We intend to initially start this project in Cape Maclear, Mangochi District on a small scale and expand the scheme as quickly as funding will allow across the area. Eventually the dream is to provide water to farmlands in every community close to the lake and thus increase Malawi's food production enough to end malnutrition completely and substantially reduce poverty.

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The self-acclaimed and political activists Edward Kambanje and Oliver Nakoma with the banners Concerned Citizens of Malawi (CCM)-People Power Movement (PPM) in their ignorant press statement issued on Sunday, February 16, 2025 wrongly accusing the former Secretary to the Treasury (ST) Dr Mafuta Mwal...

24/10/2024

Let it grow

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Let it grow no food for the lazy man

Address

PO Box 142 Monkey Bay
Cape Maclear

Telephone

+265994376430

Website

https://www.chuffed.org/project/let-it-grow

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