Latest News From COMACO
It’s Wild! – now in America
In their last newsletter, COMACO announced that their first container of It’s Wild! Products had just been exported to the United States.
“We are excited to announce that we have received confirmation from our partners, Sharing Our Best, in the United States that our shipment has finally arrived! This has been a long process with many obstacles as we learned all the steps involved, but we are excited to see all of this hard work paying off.”
For everyone living in the United States, check out It’s Wild! Social media for information on how to purchase their products near you.
Cowpea snack tasting
Over the past year COMACO’s food team has been working hard to create a healthy snack from cow peas. Recently, their staff carried out taste tests at grocery stores and local schools to help ‘fine tune’ their healthy new product with participants giving feedback on texture and flavour.
They are now close to finalising their finished product and cannot wait to launch their new tasty snack.
A story from the field
Meet Methadio Banda, a resident from Kawaza Cheifdom in the Sinda District. Methadio shares how COMACO has helped him, and his family, since he joined the project in 2016.
“Before joining COMACO my life was hard. I could produce very little in my field because my soils were not fertile. I was not able to feed my family. Just look at my fields with Gliricidia. Now I am able to feed them. I have used the money that I have made from my crops to send all of my children to school. Three of them have completed grade 12 and the rest are in school. Not only that, but my family is able to eat 3 times a day.
Before COMACO I would produce 1 ox cart of maize, 10 bags of soy beans, and no groundnuts. However, today I have already harvested 85 bags of soy beans, maize is currently in the field and I am expected to harvest not less than 15 ox carts, For groundnuts I expect not less than 25 bags of unshelled ground nuts. COMACO has done great, I want to encourage fellow farmers to comply with what COMACO is teaching.”
Find out more
You can read more about how COMACO is redefining what a food store actually is, working with over 225,000 farmers across the Luangwa Valley and around Kafue National Park, along with this month’s Chairman’s letter in their full newsletter here and don’t forget to check out their Facebook page for all their latest updates.