DIFI PRACTICING FARMS FOR PASS OVER SKILLS, SEEDS AND BREEDS.
The program builds capacity of youths, ageing, old persons and entrepreneurs to invest large scale production of diverse produce/livestock, transformation and e-commerce. The program offer best techniques for the transformation and use of existing natural resources for communities and individuals’ livelihoods. The program seeks to break the yoke of poverty through Pass-Over Skill, Breeds and Seedlings from experts of DIFI and partners to the vulnerable individuals and communities hoping the replication of same.
DIFI pass over skills to communities through informative sessions, communication gadgets or media and on-spot training of trainers for the improvement of their techniques of agriculture, livestock and fisheries management. These skills are documented and handed in forms of manuals to the coordinators of such programs.
DIFI Pass Over breeds launched in 2014 in North West Region of Cameroon in Ngoketunjia Division seek to mobilize with for beneficiaries, improved and or hybrids seeds and breeds from renown research institutions and hand same to trained beneficiaries for individual and collective industrial production and commercialization of these products and animals as the case may be. In the 2014 DIFI Agro Pool Cameroon Program began with campaign for industrial production of maize, perishable vegetables, grains and livestock. DIFI promote the use of Panar Hybrid Maize 53 white or yellow as a means of poverty alleviation and achieving second generation farming in Councils. Hybrid Maize Pan 53 and Pan 12 are very high yielding hybrid maize for medium and low attitude zones (0-205m .a.sl). The maize production under this program has to tripple over the years so as to improve on the revenue status of youths, women and men engaged in large plantations of maize farming. The same strategy goes for Old Persons who are grouped in DIFI Practicing Farms in different villages where improved breeds are solicited and handed to groups of old persons for the latter to rear same for a period of time and after multiplications of these breeds, other breeds are still passed over in the same zones to another old persons for sustainable livelihoods.