Nkenda Margreta: The Role Model worth celebrating |
It
is thanks to Nkenda Margreta that President Biya instructed the late GM of CDC
to kickstart the Oil Palm Expansion programme in Donga Mantung Division. By
winning the national first prize in palm oil, she created the needed awareness
that Donga Mantung Division has suitable climatic conditions for the cultivation
of oil palms. Meet her in her plantation and you will be filled by the gulp of
having met a professional farmer. To her farming is not just a profession but a
calling.
However,
what makes her different is that she is a very hard working woman and besides
being a house wife, she moved above men established artificial barriers to
create an oil palm plantation. In Misaje where she hails, women hardly own
plantations but she has not only defeated that notion but is inspring other
women and young girl in the entire division. She is a practical example of the
long established slogan that “what a man can do, a woman can do it better”.
With over 10 ha of oil palms, Nkenda Margreta says her dream is to expand her
plantation to about 25 hectares. What is however very interesting is that she
has a very good knowledge on local processing techniques. Anybody who has had
the opportunity to come closer to Madame Nkenda Margreta would agree with me
that she is a professional farmer given that she envies nothing from those who
work in offices, “my office is my farm”, and she once told us.
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. (The 2014 Bloggies Finalist)
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