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- W2265702688 abstract "This article is based on two years' field experience, from 1982-84, in the seasonally high rainfall Luapula Province of northern Zambia. The writer worked as an agricultural adviser to promote the Zambian government's Lima Campaign, which was aimed at increasing the national output of five crops: maize, rice, groundnuts, field beans and sunflowers. Some of the traditional methods of cultivation, particularly chitemene, are outlined. Aspects of production are discussed in the light of traditional social structures and attitudes. The Lima Campaign appeared to aim at reducing the traditional diversity of crops grown within a field, often including trees as an agroforestry component, to the level of a monoculture without any trees. The campaign placed much emphasis on maize, also at the national level. Other biological limitations of the Lima approach were noted, e.g. possible detrimental effects on soil structure. Subsequently the writer became aware of conflicts between groups of people at various levels: between the interests of the urban communities of the Copperbelt who exert pressure on central government to keep prices of staple commodities down and Luapula's rural communities who want fair prices for their agricultural products. The difficulties experienced by parastatals, the cooperatives in particular, reflect the conflicts between urban and rural interests. Nearer the farmer is another set of contradictions: those between the strongly masculine western-modelled extension service and the farmers themselves, most of whom were women. Possibly the most dramatic single step towards empowering local farmers to promote their own interests would be to increase greatly the proportion of women extension workers in villages. It is also proposed that the extension service be diversified to include experienced farmers who might work with conventionally trained officers on an equal basis. Some factors which might promote such equality are mentioned. Experts live in a different world as regards beliefs, customs and priorities from the local people they encourage to adopt modern methods. The experts as a group need to revise their attitudes and behaviour towards the local people they profess to support. The revision of attitudes should extend, for example, to an reThe Crisis of Farming Systems examination of western profit-oriented motives, which may not be operative in African villages. Many of the privileges experts currently take for granted should be open to question. People wielding power must be acutely sensitive to the needs of more vulnerable people." @default.
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- W2265702688 title "The Crisis of Farming Systems in Luapula Province, Zambia" @default.
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