THE UNION ENGAGES THE MINISTER OF GENDER This week the ZNFU Board met with the Minister of Gender, Hon Inonge Wina M.P. to further deliberations on ZNFU activities for women farmers and to exchange ideas on the performance of the agricultural sector and the challenges farmers are facing. The engagement was cordial / productive as it was evident that the meeting narrowed the information gaps on both sides and opened new possibilities for collaboration for the mutual benefit of women farmers through a memorandum of understanding which both parties committed to put in place. The Minister pointed out that her Ministry would like to create linkages with institutions which have been in existence for a long time such as the ZNFU through the services that women can access such as access to finance under the Lima, access to loans for equipment through the Bunjiimi Asset Plus+, access to loan a cow facility, general capacity building in business management and access to markets. On the challenges that farmers face, the Minister pledged to be supportive as government deliberates on various policies so that the costs of production farmers face are reduced and to maintain policy consistency underlining that this is important because agriculture is the cornerstone of the PF government’s source of economic growth. The Minister also threw a challenge to agribusiness companies to consider empowering women by appointing enterprises run by women as agents or distributors of agro inputs such as chemicals and to help government in identifying women who have excelled in communities for recognition. Leading the ZNFU team was the ZNFU President, Dr Nguleka in the company of the 1st Vice President, Mr Moffat and other ZNFU Board members, the Executive Director and other management staff.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 07:05:27 +0000
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