Kitowo-1st Ev. Luth., Rush Cty, MN-CVP Report for Sept 12, 2011

2010 CVP
Companion Village Project
Visit Report
6th Visit first year
September, 12 2011
Village Kitowo
Pastor Hezroni Kiswaga
Companion First Evangelical Lutheran Church
Attendees 6
Weather Sunny
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
Both corn and beans have been harvested. Corn and bean yield they got could have been better than it is if they could have used the right spacing we recommend them to use.

Crop Corn Beans
Yield per ½ acres 7 bags 1 bag and 4tins

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. Discussions about the farming season
They like the corn and bean variety. At the beginning the plants did look great. At the middle of the season drought came and most of the plants did not make it.
5. Adaptation
The pastor said that people like to adopt what we teach them but the problem is high amount of fertilizer we recommend. We told them in case of inadequate fertilizer they should increase the spacing between plants with respect to amount of fertilizer in hand.
Comments/questions
 They suggested keeping the same planting time like last year for both beans and corn.
 They expect to correct the problem with spacing at the time when they will be planting for next season
Conclusion
So long as this is their first year with this project the yields they got are encouraging and we hope that they will put more effort next year and they will get more than this year.