Project Summary
SAT has established an innovative youth vocational skills training programme focusing on green agricultural technologies and supported by Driptech and One Stop Solar, two private sector partners that will provide technical training to youth and consignment stock tom graduates from the training program so that they can better service their communities. In 2025, the YVSTC will produce its first 40 graduates who will be trained on drip irrigation, solar and sheet metal fabrication, and shall be supported to run their businesses as service providers to communities. The youths, and the farmers that they will serve, will also be linked to the Tejaswini chillies value chain through Shumbatafara (Pvt) Limited, and shall produce chillies for an export market.
Project Detail
- Target Beneficiaries : 40 graduates in 2025
Markets
Service providers for communities
SESAME PHASE 2
Sustainable Agriculture Technology Zimbabwe (provides training , extension support and marketing linkages)
Driptech
One Stop Solar
Green agricultural technologies
Mwenezi District
Building on efforts from the 2023 -2024 Season