Abstract
This research paper attempts to investigate the contribution of block farming to assuring food security in households of block farmers. The study used both secondary and primary sources of informat...
Highlights
Agriculture in many rural areas of developing countries is practised by peasants or small-scale subsistence farmers
An overview of intensive crop production: block farming in lesotho According to the officer in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, block farming was introduced in the financial year 2005/2006 by the government of Lesotho working hand in hand with the Standard Lesotho Bank with the aim of reducing food insecurity among the citizens
Block farming is said to be mainly sponsored by the Lesotho government and the local farmers that provide their land for growing the crops
Summary
Agriculture in many rural areas of developing countries is practised by peasants or small-scale subsistence farmers. In order to increase agricultural productivity individual fields of farmers are merged into a large block (Matenga, 2017). It is opined by Julius (2019) that, block farming in Ghana was introduced by the government to provide youth with improved farming inputs and techniques. This was meant to introduce them (youth) to the market crops. Block farming is commended for facilitating intensive farming, consolidation of fragmented landholdings into one large piece of land often displaces people from their residential places in some countries (Matenga, 2017)
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