Our Work
Youth empowerment through Horticulture (YETH)
Youth empowerment through Horticulture (YETH) is project that empowers young people who have passion in producing horticulture crops. The project empowers young farmers who are experiencing problems in attaining good returns despite the effort that is injected the process of production. Hopmac facilitates the formation of cooperatives and gives them the on-farm training for their selected crops and helps them on the marketing of the harvested produce. They main objectives is to make these young attain advanced skills in the production and marketing of horticulture crops. This will make them economic independent and food secure in line with UN SDGs number 1 and 2 which ending poverty and no hunger respectively
Mu Umodzi Muli Mphavu Coorperative in Mitundu is among the beneficiaries whose focus is Garlic production. The Cooperatives is composed of young people living around the rural areas including vulnerable women. They are supported young farmers with Garlic seed, fertilizers, Pesticides, advisory services and market for their produce after harvesting. Their production area is 1.5 Hectares collectively and yield of 10 tons is being anticipated all factors constant.
Landscape Designs & Management
Hopmac works closely with numerous leading designers turning conceptual garden design plans into reality, assisting from site analysis, conceptual stages and budget costings, through to aftercare.
We understand the importance of a personal service and strive to ensure your clients feel the value of bringing us onboard. We deliver a bespoke personalized construction experience, that mirrors the individual design process provided by garden designers and architects.
Our team of highly skilled landscapers pay complete respect to your design, utilizing their construction expertise to bring out and look after the design at every stage, whilst ensuring the garden is constructed to the highest possible standards, with longevity and sustainability in mind.
Hi-Tech Horticulture Through Drip Irrigation Technology
Hi-tech Horticulture’ may be defined as the deployment of any technology, which is modern, less environment dependent, capital intensive and has the capacity to improve the productivity and quality of horticultural crops. Drip irrigation is one among the hi tech used in horticulture. Despite having a lot of advantages, it stands still to be expensive for purchase and use by small holder farmers. Access to these high-tech technologies is difficult by smallholder farmers due to high prices. High productivity in horticulture can be realized if these farmers are able to embrace high tech Horticulture.
Installation of cheap and affordable drip irrigation kits as a means of supplying water to the crops is one of services being offered by HOPMAC. The drip irrigation kit that covers an area of 750m2 up to 1200 plants. It comes with drippers, lateral pipes and 1000 litre tank. This is simplifying the supply of water to many farmer gardens. assisting small order farmers. There so many irrigation technologies at our office for smallholder to commercial farmers. We also have technologies for back yard gardens and landscape.