Climate-smart training season opens with farmer groups in Lilongwe district
Extension staff have begun the season-long training cycle, working with farmer groups on planting decisions matched to increasingly irregular rainfall.
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ISSED extension staff have opened this year’s training cycle with farmer groups, beginning the season-long support that distinguishes the organisation’s approach from one-off workshops.
The first sessions focus on land preparation and planting decisions — the choices that are hardest to reverse once a season is under way. Participants work through variety selection, timing and spacing against the rainfall patterns they have actually observed in recent years, rather than against a calendar that no longer holds.
Following the season through
Training groups will be visited again at each critical point in the season: at emergence, at the first signs of pest pressure, ahead of harvest, and at the point of sale. That follow-through is what converts attendance into adoption.
Adoption rates, yield change per hectare and change in household income from agriculture will be tracked against the indicators set out in the ISSED results framework.