Ifuwa CVP Visit Report - Aug 15-2012

2010 CVP Companion Village Project 6th Visit Year Two August 15, 2012 Village Ifuwa Pastor Gervas Nziku Companion Lord of Life Lutheran Attendees 04 Weather Dry Reporters Gabriel and Pastor Mang’ulisa There is a village meeting about village social and economic development. Almost all villagers have gone to attend the meeting. Four church leaders have remained behind to meet us. We told them that what we are going to training them and discuss should be passed to the other parish members in the coming Sunday service. Purposes • 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 already been harvested Crop Corn Beans Yield per ½ acres 6 bags* 2 bag 5tins *1 bag = 7 tins (plastics) 3. Storage: We had short discussion on crop storage and marketing. We trained them on marketing of the food crops. Food crops should be stored for domestic uses and excess can be sold in the month when crop prices are highest. We trained them how to mix grain storage pesticide “shumba” and the appropriate volume of grain per bottle recommended. 4. The past farming season Bean Plot There is improvement of the performance of the demo plots after being moved to a new location. The incidents of termites have not reported and the yields have increase. The variety introduced is good and yield higher than local variety. Corn Plot The harvest is higher than that obtained last year. However, we told them they can still get higher than that in that small area. At least now the villagers can learn something from the demo plot. They want to try another corn variety. We will try to get another variety to test here. 5. Adoption Pastor said that, since there is improvement in the demo plots, many people are growing interest to learn more on the farming techniques applied. Comments/questions:  How should we mix storage pesticides with corn or beans? Use a flat hard surface. Put small amount of corn then mix well with the pesticides. Use 200gm to 3 bags of corn or beans. Make sure the pesticide has not expired.  Pastor said that training through demonstration plots is good and something the parish members like. He hopes his parish will highly benefit from this program. He is optimistic with the new location of the plots and insists that there will be improvement next season and many people will learn from the plots. Conclusion We told them that we expect more improvement next year. We will deliver the seeds and fertilizers October. The plots should be well prepared by then. The new plots location seems to be ideal for the demonstrations though is located to the preaching point.