Bomalang'ombe Lutheran

2010 CVP
Companion Village Project
Visit Report
6th Visit Year One
July 16, 2010


Village Bomalang’ombe Parish
Pastor Lutangilo Tewele
Companion Prince of Peace Lutheran Church
Attendees 19
Weather for the past month Dry
Reporters Ibrahim

Purposes of the visit
• To collect the yield measurement
• To deliver grain storage chemical “Shumba”
• To do the end of season discussion and planning for the next farming season
Topics
1. Review of the handouts
• 6th Visit instruction handout
• Yield recording sheet
2. Yield records
(i) Harvesting
Crop Amounts in bags/plot(1/2 Acre) Remarks
Corn Harvested, shelled but not yet measured. Left to dry for a while.

Beans Not yet harvested


(ii) Record in 10 m rows for Corn

Location Amount in litres Number of plants
1st 10 meters 7.25
2nd 10 meters 8.5
3rd 10 meters 8.0

NB: They forgotten to count number of plants for corn, but they separated rotten corn in every 10m row recorded. In the record of 7.25, 8.5, and 8.0 litres they find out 1.75, 2.5 and 2.5 were rotten respectively.

3. Storage
We instruct them how to store grain for home usage and marketing at the time of high price. We instructed how to mix grain storage chemicals “shumba” and the appropriate amount recommended per bottle. We left the pesticides to them to mix with their harvested grains.

4. Discussion about their growing season.

We discussed about problems occurred through their growing season, such as how the seeds given to them behave, in terms of germination, diseases, amount of rainfall received, current corn and beans price with reference to future price after harvesting season.
• Prices
The current corn price is 20,000/= per bag and price goes up to 42,000/= TShs per bag (3 months later), for beans is 60,000/= per bag and goes up to 100,000/= per bag.
• Corn
Corn is already harvested, shelled however not yet measured and packed in the bags. They still needed to be dry enough before they put in the bags. Beans
The beans were affected by fungal disease and pests; they sprayed Thionex but couldn’t work properly may be because of too much rainfall received. They communicated with us and we did send the fungicides and it seems to work okay, even though they are really excited waiting to see the yield.

Comments/questions

 They asked where they can buy certified bean seeds.
We told them, bean seeds are available in the research farms such as Uyole and Dabaga seed farm. A good thing for these research farms they can ship via public buses at a reasonable price.
 They asked weeding at flowering stage for beans is okay?
 We told them; it is not recommended since weeding at that time will cause flowers to drop or fall off the ground so weeding should be done a little bit before flowering stage.
 They asked since the hybrid (H628) seeds rots, they were wondering if we can introduce a different hybrid.
We told them yes, we will look on a different variety for the next growing season.

 Three people have already practiced the agronomic practices taught.

Conclusion
We thanked all people who have been attending and doing a work in the plots. We insisted them to keep good records.