Bomalang'ombe Lutheran-Prince of Peace; CVP Report for Sept 14-2011

2009 CVP
Companion Village Project
Visit Report
6th Visit 2nd year
September, 14 2011

Village Bomalang’ombe parish
Pastor Lutango Tewele
Companion Price of peace Lutheran Church
Attendees 7
Weather Cloudy, rainy
Reporters Nafeti and Pongolani

Purposes of the visit
• To collect the yield measurement
• To deliver grain storage chemical “Shumba”
• 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. Harvesting
They have good harvest of corn and low bean yield. Corn yield could have been more than they got if they could have not rotted.

Crop Corn Beans
Yield per ½ acres 6 bags and 3tins 3 Tins

3. Storage
We instructed them on how to store grain for home usage and for selling at the time of high price. We instructed how to mix grain storage pesticides “shumba” and the appropriate volume of grain per bottle recommended. We left the pesticides to them to mix with their harvested grains.
4. Discussion about the farming season
The corn variety which was grown last season had the problem of rotting after maturity. We discussed with them and it looks like in that area most of this improved varieties of corn have the problem with rotting which makes most of the farmers if not all to use the local corn varieties. Plans for the coming season is to divide the corn plot into two parts and plant one improved corn variety and one part local variety and use the same methods of production we recommend.
5. Adaptation
4 attendees said they have been practicing some of the techniques and they have seen the different and they hope to harvest more corn from the farms they used some of the techniques we teach.

Comments/questions
 Few people attended because they have community activities going on the same day.
 They have problem of corn rotting and they suggested changing corn variety the coming growing season. We plan to plant half of the corn plot local variety and the remaining half improved corn variety
 We think also of doing late planting so that corn mature during the dry season

Conclusion
We told them to keep doing good job and take the methods we are teaching them back to their own farmers.