Entumbane Community okays solar powered initiatives for food security

Entumbane Community okays solar powered initiatives for food security

The Entumbane leader has said that the Entumbane Community is working on increasing food security through purchasing of equipment needed for supplying water for irrigation purposes in the gardens.

Dingilizwe Tshuma during his address at a meeting with residents in the constituency yesterday said solar powered projects for the gardens is a sustainable development project that empowers communities to produce and supply to the available markets.
Tshuma said the solar powered borehole will make the irrigation process easier and communities will be able to provide for themselves. One resident stood up and said gardening in the past sustained his family as his parents could pay his school fees from the funds.

Households country wide are receiving maize after the president declared drought in the country, a move applauded by climate change specialists to be advanced by variations in weather patterns. In 2017, the farming season was affected by sporadic rainfall distribution leading to delayed farming season of grain.

"We want to build something out of nothing as a community," said Tshuma. "What is left for us now is to purchase batteries that will store energy to sustain the solar powered boreholes."

In an interview with the climate change director Washington Zhakata recently, the department is working with the ministry of mines to grant permission in Goromonzi for the mining of lithium for manufacture of solar powered batteries from within.

"Instead of us having to import lithium for our batteries we are waiting for the minister of mines and energy development to grant licenses so that we produce as a country," said Zhakata.