Pommern Sec School - Faith Luth., Forest Lake,MN-CVP Report Mar 30-2010

2011 CVP
1st Visit, Year one
March, 30 2011

School Pommern Sec School
Head Master Shadrack Nyaulingo
Companion Faith Lutheran Church
Attendees About 40 students
Elevation 1871 meters
Weather Rainy
Reporters Nafeti, Gabriel, Roger and Rev. Lunodzo

Purpose of the visit
• Introducing the CV project to the congregation
• Taking the soil samples for soil analysis
• To deliver box file and a hand hoe

Topics
1. Introduction
Rev. Lunodzo Mang’ulisa delivered greetings from DIRA and introduced the Ag Institute stuff and encouraged people to participate fully in the project. Roger gave the greetings from St. Paul Area Synod and Faith Lutheran Church and went through the practices we teach and recommend on the demonstration plots we have.

2. Handouts
The handouts were distributed then reviewed
• CVP Plot record of events
• DIRA – Institute of agriculture agreement
• Chronological Plot Management of Crops handout
• CVP Instruction – 1st Visit

3. Agricultural background of this area
The school has about seven hundred students. The crops which are grown in the area include corn, beans, pea and they grow improved varieties of corn the experience we have from the demo plot at the parish.

4. Soil sampling
After the meeting in the classroom we went outside together with students who
attended the classroom session and we took soil samples from 4 points around the
school campus. Two types of samples were taken, from 6 inches depth and 12 inches deep. The Samples will be taken to the laboratory for analysis.





Comments/questions from students

1. The aim of demo plot is to make farmers grow more than they currently do, but how are farmers from different places going to use the same soil analysis results?
We cannot take soil samples from every parts of the village; however we believe that the soil of one part of the village will not be very different from soils of another part of the same village. For the case of those who are coming outside this village or from other regions they cannot use the recommendation from soil analysis results we are going to take from this area.

2. Many of students come from different areas, will the kind of seeds we are going to use on the demonstration plot be the same varieties they would use when they get back to their home places?
The answer is no, those from different places will use seeds recommended for their area according to altitude and other factors of the area they come from.

Conclusions
We emphasized the importance of following instruction, learn and take the knowledge back to their parents at home, and if they follow what we instructed they will increase the family income.