Mwatasi CVP Visit Report - May 21-2012

2012 CVP Companion Village Project Visit Report 5th Visit 4th Year May 21, 2012. Village Mwatasi Parish Pastor Elias Kadinda Companion Trinity Lutheran Church Attendees 07 Weather Cloudy and cool Reporters Rev. Mangu’lisa, Pongolani and Venance. Purpose of the visit • To explain and demonstrate how to take yield measurement Topics 1. Went through the handouts o 5th Visit handout o Yield recording sheet 2. Demonstrations Since this is their fourth year of practicing CVP, we decided to ask the members of the congregation to explain how they would go about measuring yield. One of the members volunteered to explain as follows; that he would take a 10m piece of string and use it to measure a 10m row, count the number of plants and number of ears within the measured row and record them. He would then harvest the ears from the measured row, thresh them and measure the volume of the grains and record in liters. He said he would repeat the exercise at two more places. The explanation given by the member of the congregation was precise and accepted by us and other members as the right procedure to take yield measurement. Then we went to their plot to see. Plots information This is one of the areas lying on the upcountry side characterized with excessive rain which causes rotting of the corn after maturity. Parishioners split the corn plot into two halves where they planted two varieties of corn to compare their performance and rotting problem. In one part, they planted the seed given to them by the Agricultural Institute and the other part was planted with the local seed. The bean plot was under contours which is good for reducing soil erosion. Earlier planted beans looked better than the beans planted later; all plants were approaching flowering. There were big gaps between plants. Comments It is good that they have the two varieties to compare and see which one performs better in their environment. We advised them to observe the performance and rotting property of the two varieties and finally compare the yield so that they can have a choice of which seed to use for the next growing season. Conclusion They want to try two varieties of beans which they can study to make comparison and come up with a choice of the variety which is appropriate to their local condition.