<![CDATA[Studies on urban and peri urban agriculture in Zambia have not adequately tackled issuespertaining to farming practices in wastewater irrigation farming. The investigated thefarming practices in relation to heavy metal contaminated wastewater irrigated farming attwo peri urban areas in Zambia. The method comprised observation of crop cultivationactivities at field plots located at intervals along transects established in the stratified landzones at the two study sites namely New Farm in Mufulira and Chilumba Gardens in Kafue.The results revealed that farming practices were characterised by traditional landmanagement farming practices and traditional multiple cropping systems which wereinfluenced by a combination of agro ecological factors as well as availability of heavy metalcontaminated wastewater which has the potential to contaminate soils and crops. Thefarming practices were based on adaptation of traditional production systems to peri-urbanwastewater irrigation farming which confirmed the results from other developing countries.]]>
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