Nyanzwa - CVP Visit Report - May 14-2012

2008CVP Companion Village Project 5th Visit Year Four May 14, 2012 Village Nyanzwa Pastor Luhwano Mwafute Companion Easter Lutheran Attendees 9 Weather for the past month Dry Reporters Gabriel and Don In this visit we were accompanied by Ms Itiweni Luhwago, personnel from Microfinance Institute of Tumaini University. She visited here to talk with the leaders of the Parish and leaders of the saving and Credits Cooperative Society of this village. Purpose of the visit • Demonstrating on how to take yield measurements Topics 1. Greetings Don delivered greetings on behalf of Easter Lutheran, Saint Paul Area Synod and US Ag Advisory Committee 2. We visited the demonstration plots. The crop situation does not look good. Pastor said that there has been drought. Although the plots are in the irrigated area they have not been receiving water from the river. The reasons we were told was that there has been competition of water for irrigation. Many people are farming in this area thus water is not enough. However management of the plots has not been good. It was delayed planted thus by now plants are stunted. There will be poor yields from the demo plots. 3. Review of the handouts o 5th Visit handout o Yield recording sheet 4. Demonstrations Although plants are few and stunted, we told them that we need to know how much they are going to harvest. We instructed them on how to take the yield measurements from the plots (from 10 meter rows in both corn and beans. Conclusion The program has not been successful yet in this village. There is a problem of the demonstration plots management and drought. When drought resistant crops introduced, they were not successful because many villagers are not familiar with them hence they were not well received. We told them that we will go back in July/August to take the harvest records.