Food Security
Integrated agriculture uses all the local resources including livestock manures, green compost from harvested crops, charcoal and other local materials to make organic fertilizer to enrich the soil and produce nutritious crops.
EDF provides training on organic farming techniques and why it is important to overall community food security to produce chemically free food.
Participating local farmers learn how to make bokashi organic fertilizers from local resources, organic compost, liquid manures and micro-organisms and use them to enrich the soil and produce premium crops and vegetables.
EDF provides training on processing and preservation of the portion of their crop that is not immediately sold in the local market place.
Crop Diversification
EDF currently has a pilot project to introduce Irish Potato production to local farmers
Livestock Management
EDF promotes local livestock production with training on raising pigs, goats and chickens. We use Pig production and sales to sustain the EDF training center.
Piggery
EDF provides programs in Animal Husbandry with instructions on taking care of Sow & its piglets. A health sow can produce 3 birthings each year and piglets can be sold for income or raised to maturity and sold for meat.
We use Piggery to teach farmers how to better support their households. The health benefits of organic food is the big advantage.
Pigs are an excellent source of manure to make the soil-enriching compost for organic integrated agriculture.
Chickens
We teach the local farmers to raise a local native black chicken that consumes less feed and are more resistant to diseases.
We teach care and feeding of Laying hens to increase egg production and increase income generation .
Advantages of local chicken are that the meat is very tasty and nutritious and It is in high demand in the local communities.