This course, organized by Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania (SAT) prepares you to meet the standards of the organic market for cinnamon, black pepper, cloves, turmeric, and ginger. This comprehensive course includes classroom tuition, practical training in the plot, and a field visit to spice farmers in the Uluguru Mountains.

The objetive of this course is to increase participant's yield through organic spice farming, to teach participants to produce high-quality spices  (cinnamon, black pepper, cloves, turmeric, ginger) through broad skills and to improve participant's soil fertility and to prevent erosion by using multi-cropping with vegetables and legumes. 

To produce and sell spices successfully, you need to master a number of skills. This course will train you on how to:

• set up and manage a nursery
• transplant seedlings
• plant spices in beneficiary combinations with other crops (multi-cropping system)
• take care of your spice field
• harvest orderly and correctly
• grade, dry and store your spices adequately
  
  

The course will be offered on 28th October – 1st November 2019 and 2nd December – 6th December 2019.