Wasa CVP Visit Report - Aug 16-2012

2011 CVP Companion Village Project 6th Visit Year One August 16, 2012 Village Wasa Pastor/Evangelist Juhudi Mkenge’ Companion Fish Lake Lutheran Attendees 12 Weather for the past month Dry Reporters Gabriel, Pongolan, Rev. Mangu’lisa and Venance 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 were harvested and threshed. The yield was as recorded in the table below:- Crop Corn Beans Yield per ½ acres 7.3 bags 2.6 bags 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 pesticide “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: Corn variety was commented as good. It yields higher than the local variety. Bean crop was affected by the dry spell that occurred between January and March this year; as a result the yield of beans recorded was low as seen above in the table. 5. Adoption: According to the Pastor of this parish and the evangelists, a few members are adopting some techniques taught by the institute. They plant in rows and space plants wider than the spacing adopted in the demonstration plots because they can’t afford to buy as much fertilizer as applied in the demonstration plot. Comments/questions:  We told them to continue adopting the techniques and make use of the knowledge which will continue to be provided to them through the demonstration plot for two more years to come.  For beekeeping they thought it would be possible to do it at a preaching point of Wasa but not at Wasa itself.  We hope to send inputs on time to give them the opportunity of scheduling their activity on time for good performance . Conclusion We hope they will continue picking up the farming techniques we teach them in the next farming season because they are eager to learn and cope. You can see this quality in their attendance as well. The Pastor works hard to make sure evangelists from all preaching points attend the meetings so that they spread the knowledge gained to all preaching points.