The Kamisamba farm project started in 1998 with the purchase of 500 hectares of land and a run-down farmhouse on a hillside outside of Kamina. Work continued there throughout the war, and it has since slowly developed into a model agricultural training and experimentation center, with the harvests going to the United Methodist orphanage in town.

The farm focuses on three areas:

-Disemination of agriculture techniques
-Training in plowing with oxen
-Training of agricultural trainers

Current Production:

The farm grows corn, beans, peanuts, and soy beans all year long. In the dry season, crops such as tomatoes, onions, cabbage, carrotts, and lettuce are also successfully grown. This is in addition to our moringa tree, bee-keeping and fishpond project.

In the 2004-2005 growing periods, eight hectares of corn and half an hectare of other crops were grown.

Recent News:
 
Last fall (2005), with help from UMCOR, construction was completed on a training center that contains a classroom, dining room, and lodging for 20 women and 20 men. Individuals from all over the region can now live at the farm for months at a time while learning agricultural techniques.

Next Steps:

Kamisamba Farm is working to expand and diversify production through planting palm, citrus, banana, and moringa trees and by creating fish ponds.

We also hope to obtain at least one working tractor to further increase production capacity.

Farm Director: Tshinish Kabong
Farmers: 13
Intern: 1
Total : 14