Rainwater harvesting

Our coordinators and Champion farmers from Chamwino District have started a campaign to ensure that each village in the district has four demonstration sites for Rainwater Harvesting Fanya juu/chini trenches. This will help to educate and activate other 28,000 farmers in the district. 30 villages down, 20 to go! We are super happy for them since they are doing this out of their own initiative

We are happy to see that after receiving our education on rainwater harvesting through our champion farmers; many farmers were motivated and they have applied this technique in their farms. Rainwater harvesting Fanya juu/chini trenches enable farmers retain more rainwater in their farms from little rains in arid areas like Dodoma. The technique also prevents vicious circle of soil erosion from run offs and contributes to prolonged moist soils for crops and less washing away of vegetation/seeds for healthy lands and