Nduli-CVP Visit Jan 12-2010

2010 CVP
Companion Village Project
Visit Report
4th Visit Year two
January 12, 2010


Village Nduli
Pastor Laiton Muyinga
Companion Christ the King
Attendees 8
Weather for the past month Heavy Rain
Reporters Ibrahim, Gabriel, Roger and Alfred

Purpose of the visit
• Planting bean and fertilizer application demonstrations
• Demonstration on second fertilizers application in corn
• Deliver fertilizer bags, Bean seeds, bottle spray, and insecticides
Topics
1. Greetings
Roger gave greetings from Christ the King, Saint Paul Area Synod and US Ag Advisory Committee
2. Went through the handouts
o 4th Visit handout
o Quiz handout
o Rain record sheets.
3. Demonstrations
We demonstrated how to measure inter row spacing (30cm). Using a string and a hand hoe it was demonstrated how to make a trench for planting the bean seeds. One seed was placed after every 10 cm. It was demonstrated how to place one full bottle cap of fertilizer between 2 seeds i.e. Seed-seed-fertilizer-seed-seed-fertilizer etc.

4. Fertilizer and seed delivery
According to the analysis of the soil of this area, the type of fertilizer recommended was NPK (10-18-24) for bean seed planting. The congregation was given 2 NPK bags and 40 Kg of bean seeds, variety of bean seeds delivered is WANJA-(drought resistance variety). We also delivered 1 bag (50 Kg) of UREA for second fertilizer application to corn field.



Comments
 The District Commissioner (Government leader) he visited Nduli in December, 2009 specifically to see a demonstration plot, he was impressed of what is happening and he said he will order the government Ag officers in his district to come and learn from Nduli.
 When Roger and I visited Nduli several days before our special visits we found out corn were showing yellow strips on the leaves, that is the sign of Sulfur deficit so we brought the fertilizer that contain sulfur and we applied in a little plot within the demonstration plot to see what will happen.
 After observing the bean seed we delivered, they were happy to see the seeds were in the good condition as compared to the local seeds they have been using.

Questions from audience and answers

 They asked where they can get bean seeds for their own farm.
We gave them cell phone number of the seed dealer (Uyole Research Farm)
 If they don’t have enough fertilizer as we recommend what they can do?
We suggested to them to use manure (compost) or to go for large spacing that will give them minimum plant population per area.

Conclusions/Recommendations
We emphasized the importance of following instruction because the success of the program depends upon them following what we instructed. They promised to follow all the instructions.