Sustainable Agricultural Approaches: ECHO provides a couple different workshops that lean toward sustaining agriculture. One is the Health, Agricuture, Culture, and Community workshop. This workshop is one that will help people improve their own health, agriculture, and nutrition, through understanding and applying scientific, biblical and culturally appropriate principles and also making behavioral changes necessary for transformational development.
The other is Tropical Agricuture. ECHO has so many collection of useul plants for small farm tropical agriculture its amazing. This program will teach students about tropical plants and agricutural techniques used in developing the world. Whats great about this program is that you get to use a real farm as your classroom and get to work hands on and really learn a lot about sustaining agriculture.
Rural Farmers: Rural farmers produce the bulk of the food the world eats. One of the challenges they are haveing is the high prices of fertiliser, pesticides, herbicides and other inputs which impact the yield and production of farmers. Another problem is local farmers have poor feeder roads and inadequate road network between rural areas where agricultural production mainly takes place and the urban areas. Also, lack of good on farm and off farm storage facilities.
Appropriate technologies and techniques:
Technologies
- Biofuel
- Compost
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Hunger solutions
- Water safety and Water quality
- Irragation Techniques
Techniques
- Neem
- Chaya
- Moringa
- Live fencing
- Benefits of small animals
- Urban gardening techniques
- Deforstation
This was a fun experience. I was able to learn alot about plants and farming and what it takes sustain your garden. My experience growing plants is very limited, I have planted plants that are already been grown but in recent memory havent actually grown my own plants. If I needed to grow my own food im sure I could manage to do it but it wouldnt be easy thats for sure. Farmers have a very tough job growing all these plants and taking care of them.
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