RALPH WENGE, CNN ANCHOR: As part of a plan to stimulate its economy, Zambia's government has been trying to make small farms more productive. Agricultural products accounted for only 18 percent of the country's gross domestic product last year. One program focuses on helping women farmers become more successful. Zambia's ZNBC-TV tells us how the program works.</s>HENRY NGILAZI, ZNBC REPORTER (voice-over): In Africa, a big number of women are engaged in peasant farming. They tend the land for livelihoods. In Zambia, women in rural areas are encouraged to from groups which are given loan</s>CECILIA MAKOTA, PROGRAM PARTICIPANT: This is a day for crop harvesting, shelling, packaging -- ready to pay back the loan to the fertilizer company. This is a great day to us because we show our capabilities as women farmers, that we can do even better than the men farmers.</s>NGILAZI: Through such farming activities, the women's livelihood has become better. Despite the burden of repaying the loans, they have something to carry home: the profit from their produce. In Zambia,
Program Gives Female Farmers in Zambia Access to Loans