Rape is one of the most favorite vegetables in Zambians. Customers come all the way from Lusaka to buy Rape. Farmer watering vegetables using watering can distributed through S.A.V.E. funding from Japan's Postal Savings for International Voluntary Aid program. Cabbage growing well with the help of compost as a natural fertilizer. Tomato field before harvest.
Tomatos are also very common in the Zambian diet.
Harvest season for cotton is from July to August. The sale price is about thirty dollars for an 80 kg bag. This farmer was delighted with improved results of his sunhemp field. Farmers learned to plant it alternately with corn to keep the soil fertile. Sunhemp is rotated with other crops because it can be used as a form of green manure.