Climate Smart Market Oriented Agriculture Project

The CSMA Project is supporting farmers to be climate resilient, generate sustainable income, incorporate gender balance and reduce poverty in #Eswatini.

[Climate Smart Market Oriented Agriculture Project @CSMAEswatini]

The @CSMAEswatini produced a portal, https://t.co/dDs4DVnOBo, for vegetable growers to access inputs and financial assistance. Vegetable farmers in #Eswatini can register on this portal by contacting the Project Manager Bheki Ginindza at 2518 6040 or email: [email protected].

[Mantoe Phakathi @MantoeP]

A new farming magazine in #Eswatini that speaks to all #agriculture issues in the country and beyond. Get yourself a copy from your nearest supermarket. #climatechange #journalism

[Mantoe Phakathi @MantoeP]

This is @CSMAEswatini model that @CSMAEswatini is implementing at the two beneficiary fruit and vegetables irrigation schemes; Mavulandlela under Ntfonjeni Inkhundla under Hhohho Inkhundla and Intamakuphila under Velezizweni Inkhundla in the Manzini Region. #ColdChainSummit2019

[Mantoe Phakathi @MantoeP]

Almost 60 percent of the costs incurred by the @CSMAEswatini farmer beneficiaries went to labour - Ginindza. #ColdChainSummit2019

[Mantoe Phakathi @MantoeP]

The farmers under @CSMAEswatini are yet to make profit because of a 40 percent rejection rate of their produce - Ginindza. #ColdChainSummit2019

[Mantoe Phakathi @MantoeP]

The farmers use furrow irrigation which wastes water. They produce based on what the market will want and that’s why the @CSMAEswatini had to come in to assist the farmers - Ginindza. #ColdChainSummit2019

[Mantoe Phakathi @MantoeP]

After outlining the challenges, Ginindza says the @CSMAEswatini is based on the following principles. #ColdChainSummit2019

[Mantoe Phakathi @MantoeP]

Objectives of the @CSMAEswatini in supporting Intamakuphila and Mavulandlela Irrigation schemes make money from their fruit and vegetable production farming - Ginindza. #ColdChainSummit2019

[Mantoe Phakathi @MantoeP]

Everything we do is focused on the farmer to help him or her grow in business - Jandri Duvenage at the #ColdChainSummit2019. #CCS2019 #Eswatini

[Mantoe Phakathi @MantoeP]

Farmers don’t go out of business because of low prices but they go out of business because of low income - Jandri Duvenage from the RSA Agents at the #ColdChainSummit2019. #CCS2019 #Eswatini

[Mantoe Phakathi @MantoeP]

Opportunities in cold chain - NAMBoard CEO Siphephiso Dlamini at the #ColdChainSummit2019. #CCS2019 #Eswatini

[Mantoe Phakathi @MantoeP]

This is how #Eswatini has invested in cold chain management for smallholder farmers - NAMBoard CEO, Siphephiso Dlamini at the #ColdChainSummit2019. #CCS2019

[Mantoe Phakathi @MantoeP]

We have farmers that produce only in winter and in summer they’re nowhere to be found. The market does work like that. You have to be consistent - NAMBoard CEO, Siphephiso Dlamini, at the #ColdChainSummit2019. #CCS2019 #Eswatini

[Mantoe Phakathi @MantoeP]

There’s a high demand for green leafy vegetables in #Eswatini, according to NAMBoard CEO, Siphephiso Dlamini, at the #ColdChainSummit2019. #CCS2019

[Mantoe Phakathi @MantoeP]

NAMBoard CEO Siphephiso Dlamini to delegates at the #ColdChainSummit2019. #CCS2019 #Eswatini

[Mantoe Phakathi @MantoeP]

NAMBoard CEO, Siphephiso Dlamini, takes delegates through the meaning of cold chain in the agriculture value chain. #ColdChainSummit2019. #CCS2019 #Eswatini

[Mantoe Phakathi @MantoeP]

PM Mandvulo Dlamini urges farmers to network with peers, suppliers and customers at the #ColdChainSummit2019. #CCS2019

[Mantoe Phakathi @MantoeP]

PM Mandvulo Dlamini says the #ColdChainSummit2019 came at an opportune time when King Mswati III pronounced at Sibaya that agriculture should be the driver of the country’s economy. #CCS2019 #Eswatini

[Mantoe Phakathi @MantoeP]

The aim is to generate 20 000 jobs within the next 3 years through downstream Irrigation of non-sugar crops - PM Mandvulo Dlamini at #ColdChainSummit2019.

[Mantoe Phakathi @MantoeP]

Through this summit, we’re declaring that this country is open for business. The agriculture sector is ready to tackle any market - Minister of Agriculture, Jabulani Mabuza, at the #ColdChainSummit2019. #CSS2019 #Eswatini

[Mantoe Phakathi @MantoeP]

Produce Market Association (PMA) vice-chairman, Trevor Dukes, says this is a global association with the following 5 focus areas:
1. Talent
2. Demand creation
3. Science and technology
4. Sustainability
5. Networks
#ColdChainSummit2019 #CCS2019