Southern Sorghum

Enabling Zambian farmers to adapt to a changing climate by supplying everything they need to grow indigenous drought tolerant crops; seeds, training & a market

[Sam Knowlton @samdknowlton]

“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”
— Wendell Berry

[Southern Sorghum @SouthernSorghum]

Flood risk (minor) now spreading further into Southern Zambia after xmas: close to itezhi tezhi

https://t.co/wEnzxEEvIW

[Southern Sorghum @SouthernSorghum]

Some, but low, flood risk (indicated by orange dots) now showing in Zambia: between Livingstone & Zimba and north of Sesheke

https://t.co/7HMcI82bOi

[Barry Haskins @agrobaz]

@DMAg_consultant @brill_ag @DaveyJohn_676 @becsta1984 @ShaunBourchier @agronomeiste @AgroJAK I use $/ha/mm in my farming business. Total rain is counted from harvest to harvest (not calendar yr). This yr was $2.41/mm not including interest, utilities, rates and drawings. Has varied from 0 to $3.20/mm historically.

[Southern Sorghum @SouthernSorghum]

Significant increase in area at risk of flooding across Botswana, SA & northeast Namibia

https://t.co/5wcY3mhzlD

[Southern Sorghum @SouthernSorghum]

Significant flood risk in northeast Namibia: 20 Dec

https://t.co/V4KvRJg7sB

[Southern Sorghum @SouthernSorghum]

bringing home the (sorghum) harvest

[Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics]

They're teaching economics wrong – full interview with Ha-Joon Chang

[Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics]

EIGHT WEEKS AT NUMBER ONE!
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[Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics]

Why are we taxing working people more than billionaires?

[Crop Nutrition Laboratory Services (Cropnuts) @Cropnuts]

Did you know that for every 1% increase in soil organic matter, your soil can hold up to 48,000 litres more water per ha? This can be achieved through Conservation Agriculture practices such as:
🔹 Cover cropping
🔹 Crop rotation
🔹 Crop residue management
🔹 Reduced tillage

[Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics]

I'm talking at this tomorrow at 17:45, central London outside the Treasury:

Tell the UK Chancellor to Tax the Super-Rich

https://t.co/XNI6dNqzVq

[Southern Sorghum @SouthernSorghum]

Hand threshed on the left vs. Mechanical on the right!

[Southern Sorghum @SouthernSorghum]

We need to mechanize smallholder agriculture

But that doesn't have to mean big, shiny tractors

It can be simple, little sorghum threshers

Big labour savings & clean grain: win win

Small investment ($300) means SMEs can do this without donor / NGO $

@IanECox
@HambuloN

[Southern Sorghum @SouthernSorghum]

@IanECox Some of the best riding in East & Southern Africa imho - along with N. Kenya (Chalbi Desert)

[Southern Sorghum @SouthernSorghum]

Nice to see some millet being grown in Zimba 😍

"Autonomous" millet, not something we are supporting directly (yet!)

[Southern Sorghum @SouthernSorghum]

@AmosHamule6182 We buy our seed from ZamSeed . We don't sell seed ourselves

Feel free to DM if you have questions

[Southern Sorghum @SouthernSorghum]

Visited a smallholder today that used no fertilizer + recycled seed = 100% profit.

Crop looked so healthy!

Sorghum is naturally adapted to African soils & African soil microbiology

@KMusakanya
@ChipoyiKelvin
@SorgGuy
@madamsorghum
@GeorgeAll

[Southern Sorghum @SouthernSorghum]

@ChipoyiKelvin @KMusakanya @SorgGuy @madamsorghum They have sandy loam & planted early & had good plant spacing / thinning but otherwise nothing out of the ordinary

This is a "spontaneous" sorghum farmer not someone we support directly: we provide foliar fertilizer loan. But they want to sell & we will buy! Est. harvest 4MT