Farmer to Farmer Program
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Virginia State University Farmer to Farmer Program |
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The Virginia State University Farmer-to-Farmer program
provides professional agricultural and techical assistance
via volunteers to four countries: Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Eritrea.
The program is administered by Virginia State University, in Petersburg, Virginia.
The Farmer-to-Farmer program began with the US Farm Bill in 1985. The goals of the Farmer-to-Farmer program is to provide professional specialists in agriculture, agri-business, processing, science and techology as well as trainers to host organizations that want to improve the capacity of farmers and rural industries, promote sustainable agriculture, create an environment for technology transfer to reduce poverty and hunger, bridge the knowledge gap by providing agriculture trainers to educate farmers, extension agents, agriculture instructors and agriculture processors, link producers to local and regional markets.
Virginia State University's Agricultural Research Department
received a Farmer-to-Farmer grant from the
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
in 2003.
VSU administers this 5 year grant.
To date, 2006, the Farmer-to-Farmer program has implemented projects
using 10,000 volunters world wide.
The program pays for all the costs associated with the project,
but does not pay a salary for the volunteer.
The potential volunteer must be an American citizen
and hold an American passport.
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VSU Farmer-to-FarmerProjects
2006-2007 | |||||
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| 1. | Goat breeding-diseases | ||||
| 2. | Warehouse storage of potatoes | ||||
| 3. | Dehydration processing/potato | ||||
| 4. | Sheep/goat grazing | ||||
| 5. | Sheep/goat body cond. training | ||||
| 6. | Small Ruminant marketing groups | ||||
| 7. | Marketing seed potatoes | ||||
| 8. | Dairy Waste management | ||||
| 9. | Feed plant management | ||||
| 10. | Dairy business management | ||||
| 11. | Dairy market development | ||||
| 12. | Dairy market development | ||||
| 13. | Dairy market development | ||||
| 14. | Vegetable marketing | ||||
| 15. | Dairy marketing | ||||
| 16. | Livestock assignments | ||||
| 17. | Improving Hides and skins of Cows | ||||
| 18. | Vegetable nursery production | ||||
| 19. | Drip irrigation in arid areas | ||||
| 20. | Internal Parasite Management | ||||
| 21. | Feed resource utilization | ||||
| 22. | Sheep/goat training manual Electronic Banking projects | ||||
| 23. | Electronic Banking projects | ||||
| For more information on these projects, email vsu@charter.net. | |||||
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