A training program for women in Uganda is helping them to find alternative incomes and improve their livelihoods through agroforestry.

Ghana Web reports on a program by the NGO, Trees for the Future, which has seen women farmers in Ghana’s Upper East Region of Zuarungu learn about moringa processing and soap making. They have been encouraged to practice agroforestry by integrating trees such as leuceana, moringa, cassia semea and other fruit trees on their farms to help improve their soil fertility.

Participants in the training program learnt how the leaves of the moringa tree can be processed into powder, soap, creams, pills, tea bags and toothpaste.

Trees for the Future-Ghana has provided farmers with fast growing multi-purpose tress that can help restore degraded lands and provide income generating opportunities.

The program is also supported by the Kumasi Institute of Tropical Agriculture (KITA) and United States Peace Corps Volunteers.

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