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Treadle pumps are used as a cheap and effective way of irrigating the land. Five of LMP's 10 demonstration gardens also have permanent wells on their site to ease irrigation.

Ngani demonstration garden was the first demonstration garden set up on Likoma. All gardens use organic methods to improve the soil, and box ridging and contours to prevent soil erosion.

The chicken farm at Yofu currently has 260 chickens producing about 170 eggs per days. The farm is owned and managed by Yofu village and receives technical support from LMP who provided the set-up costs.

LMP runs a limited machine shop with a wood turning lathe, circular saw, pillar drill and welding. This machine shop provides a service to the district so that basic repairs, such as welding, can be made to items such as this wheelbarrow.

LMP has two vocational classrooms and runds courses in carpentry, tin smithing and bricklaying. One classroom is also used to run computer courses for the public.