Ag Inst – Nduli
6th CVP Visit
(Partner – Christ the King, New Brighton, MN)
Sept 1st, 2009
Pastor: Layton Muyinga.
Notes about this crop:
Number of people attended; 15, there were 3 people who attended the meeting for the first time and we had all people from each preaching points except one preaching point and they informed the pastor about their absence.
The corn crop at Nduli is one of the best in the CVP Program besides having weather problems in this year.
The reasons for this include:
They followed the Ag Institute’s recommendation for everything in a timely manner. The corn was tall and the ears were well filled out.
They harvested corn and were already shelled, yield obtained is 67.5 tins equivalent to 9.6 bags of shelled corn from half an acre.
One of the people who attended the seminar explained to audience that, he cultivated Five acres and harvested only six bags of shelled corn.
Amount of beans harvested was 9 tins and 7 liters; they would like to have a different beans variety specifically a drought resistance variety.
Records:
Demonstration plot;
Ø First 10 meters- harvested amount 8.5 Kg or liters of shelled corn
Ø Second 10 meters –harvested amount 6.0 Kg or liters of shelled corn
Ø Third 10 meters – harvested amount 5.0 Kg or liters of shelled corn
Average in 10 meters in a row is 6.5 Kg or 6.5 liters of shelled corn.
Neighbor’s records:
They didn’t record; we recommended them to record next season.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Itungi-6th CVP Visit - August 31-2009
Ag Inst – Itungi notes
6th CVP Visit
(Partner – Como Park, St. Paul, MN)
Aug 31st, 2009
Pastor Damian Ngandango
Note: The first plot that was chosen had been burned. Pastor Damian decided that since it had burned, they would move the plot (further away from the church).
Notes about this crop:
The number of people attended; 15 people.
The corn is already harvested from the field and piled in the room at pastor’s house. If you look pile of corn, the corn ears are very big. We couldn’t get exactly yield because they haven’t yet shelled. They said with their experience by looking corn pile the expected number of bags is 10 bags. We will see when shelled!
The corn variety (H628) introduced seems to work okay at Itungi and most of them would like to grow the same variety 2009/10 growing season. The pastor and all the people are very happy with the yield and pastor started to prepare his field they way we instructed during 2008/09 growing season.
They reminded themselves, that they are supposed to be more serious now and do much better work next season since the introduced agronomic practices seems to work after observing from demonstration plots.
Further more, they explained that the yield obtained is beyond their expectations and they are very happy with all the agronomic practices taught to them.
We discussed and demonstrate the use of storage chemicals and gave them storage chemical called Shumba i.e. a trade name.
6th CVP Visit
(Partner – Como Park, St. Paul, MN)
Aug 31st, 2009
Pastor Damian Ngandango
Note: The first plot that was chosen had been burned. Pastor Damian decided that since it had burned, they would move the plot (further away from the church).
Notes about this crop:
The number of people attended; 15 people.
The corn is already harvested from the field and piled in the room at pastor’s house. If you look pile of corn, the corn ears are very big. We couldn’t get exactly yield because they haven’t yet shelled. They said with their experience by looking corn pile the expected number of bags is 10 bags. We will see when shelled!
The corn variety (H628) introduced seems to work okay at Itungi and most of them would like to grow the same variety 2009/10 growing season. The pastor and all the people are very happy with the yield and pastor started to prepare his field they way we instructed during 2008/09 growing season.
They reminded themselves, that they are supposed to be more serious now and do much better work next season since the introduced agronomic practices seems to work after observing from demonstration plots.
Further more, they explained that the yield obtained is beyond their expectations and they are very happy with all the agronomic practices taught to them.
We discussed and demonstrate the use of storage chemicals and gave them storage chemical called Shumba i.e. a trade name.
Ilambilole-6th CVP Visit - August 31-2009
Ag Inst – Ilambilole notes
6th CVP Visit
(Partner – Our Saviors, Hastings, MN)
Pastor: Doricus Kimbavala
Aug 31, 2009
Number of people attended; 13 people
They harvested corn and shelled, the total amount obtained is 36 tins of shelled corn equivalent to 5 bags and 1 tin per half an acre.
They doubted the idea of having a beans plot just outside the church because chicken destroyed bean plants (Note; Chicken are kept under free range system). They requested to have a beans plot in the plot that is located away from people’s houses. Remember we do have half an acre plot away from the church, I do trust this plot will be okay for beans.
After the training about getting ready for the next season, one person asked his fellow who would like to buy fertilizers list their names and number of fertilizer bags so that they can hire a truck to deliver from town to Ilambilole when time comes.
They harvested 4 tins of beans and would like to try a different variety of beans.
We demonstrated the use of storage chemicals and delivered 2 bottles of Shumba.
6th CVP Visit
(Partner – Our Saviors, Hastings, MN)
Pastor: Doricus Kimbavala
Aug 31, 2009
Number of people attended; 13 people
They harvested corn and shelled, the total amount obtained is 36 tins of shelled corn equivalent to 5 bags and 1 tin per half an acre.
They doubted the idea of having a beans plot just outside the church because chicken destroyed bean plants (Note; Chicken are kept under free range system). They requested to have a beans plot in the plot that is located away from people’s houses. Remember we do have half an acre plot away from the church, I do trust this plot will be okay for beans.
After the training about getting ready for the next season, one person asked his fellow who would like to buy fertilizers list their names and number of fertilizer bags so that they can hire a truck to deliver from town to Ilambilole when time comes.
They harvested 4 tins of beans and would like to try a different variety of beans.
We demonstrated the use of storage chemicals and delivered 2 bottles of Shumba.
Ipogoro-6th CVP Visit - Aug 26-2009
Ag Inst – Ipogoro notes
6th CVP Visit
(Partner – Augustana, St. Paul, MN)
Aug 26, 2009
Pastor Mwitula
Remember: Ipogoro has half the plots and the preaching point, Kitwiru has the other half.
They were only a pastor and 2 other people who attended, reason was, there was another meeting in the morning around 7 am up to 1pm and Inst of Ag meeting scheduled at 2pm, so people were really exhausted and went home before we arrived from Tungamalenga. We requested pastor to inform us when we schedule if there will any meeting so that we see if it will work out or we should change the schedule.
They told us they are happy with Pioneer seed variety and would like to continue growing the same variety 2009/10 growing season.
Yield obtained from ¼ of an acre is 38.5 tins equivalent to 5.5 bags of shelled corn. And the pastor said he will donate 1 bag of corn to the church during the harvest offering time.
In Kitwiru plot, they harvested corn already but not thrashed yet, soon they will thrashed and give us how many bags obtained. The harvested corn in Kitwiru was also good and similar to the harvested corn in Ipogoro.
They will prefer to have a different beans variety.
Today we discussed and demonstrated the use of storage chemicals and delivered the storage chemical called Shumba i.e. a trade name.
They didn’t record yield as we instructed them in our early visits, and we highly recommended them to record 10 meters in rows next year 2009/10 in both demo plots and neighbors farm.
6th CVP Visit
(Partner – Augustana, St. Paul, MN)
Aug 26, 2009
Pastor Mwitula
Remember: Ipogoro has half the plots and the preaching point, Kitwiru has the other half.
They were only a pastor and 2 other people who attended, reason was, there was another meeting in the morning around 7 am up to 1pm and Inst of Ag meeting scheduled at 2pm, so people were really exhausted and went home before we arrived from Tungamalenga. We requested pastor to inform us when we schedule if there will any meeting so that we see if it will work out or we should change the schedule.
They told us they are happy with Pioneer seed variety and would like to continue growing the same variety 2009/10 growing season.
Yield obtained from ¼ of an acre is 38.5 tins equivalent to 5.5 bags of shelled corn. And the pastor said he will donate 1 bag of corn to the church during the harvest offering time.
In Kitwiru plot, they harvested corn already but not thrashed yet, soon they will thrashed and give us how many bags obtained. The harvested corn in Kitwiru was also good and similar to the harvested corn in Ipogoro.
They will prefer to have a different beans variety.
Today we discussed and demonstrated the use of storage chemicals and delivered the storage chemical called Shumba i.e. a trade name.
They didn’t record yield as we instructed them in our early visits, and we highly recommended them to record 10 meters in rows next year 2009/10 in both demo plots and neighbors farm.
Kilolo-6th CVP Visit - Aug 25-2009
Ag Inst – Kilolo
6th CVP Visit
(Partner – King of Kings, Woodbury, MN)
August 25, 2009 Pastor Yona Kinganga
Notes about this crop:
Remember the corn plot at Kilolo was one of the best corn crops of the CVP plots.
The number of people attended was 20. I was impressed the way they have been recording almost all the events instructed by the Institute of Agriculture. They haven’t thrashed their corn yet, they showed me the pile of corn inside the room at pastor’s house. I instructed them to thrashed corn as soon as possible since the corn looked dry enough.
They did harvest all the corn with mould or fungal diseases (Fussarium sp) and put into bags, the idea was to know and estimate the percentage damage caused by disease.
The reasons for the better yield
I stressed the successfully of the plot was due to their hard working and followed the Ag Institute’s recommendation and doing everything in a timely manner that is why the harvested ears of corn are big and well filled out.
Records:
Demonstration plot;
Ø First 10 meters – harvested amount 4.5 Kg or Liters of shelled corn.
Ø Second 10 meters –harvested amount 5.0 Kg or Liters of shelled corn
Ø Third 10 meters-harvested amount 6.0 Kg or Liters of shelled corn
Average in 10 meters in line is 5 Kg or Liters of shelled corn.
Neighbor’s farm; Pastor Kinganga’s Farm
Ø First 10 meters- harvested amount 3.0 Kg or Liters of shelled corn.
Ø Second 10 meters –harvested amount 2.25 Kg or Liters of shelled corn
Ø Third 10 meters –harvested amount 2.5 Kg or Liters of shelled corn
Average in 10 meters in line is 2.5 Kg or Liters of shelled corn.
The price of corn in One tin of shelled corn is 4,000/= TShs. (price due to August, 2009 and it is subjected to change anytime going up or down) until it will be subjected going up in October and no chances of going down again. We recommended they should store and sell when the price is up (Suggested time to sell is January, 2010)
Beans price is 14,000/= to 15,000/= per tin.
Seed Varieties:
Beans; they are happy with Urafiki Variety we introduced to them; they prefer to continue growing it this year 2009/2010 growing season.
Corn; they doubt with H628 reasons, it grows too tall and fall/lodge off after mature and attacked by fungal diseases due to high moisture.
With consultations with seed experts we may try H 6303 (note, we still need make decision on this matter) this variety of corn is tolerable with high moisture at maturity stage and work fine in high altitude especially in Dabaga area.
Problems occurred in 2008/09:
- Lack of sprayers, they rented from the neighbor and the Inst of Ag were charged 13,000/= TShs for 5 days. (2 times spraying)
- Stolen corn (approximately 1.5 bags of shelled corn.
6th CVP Visit
(Partner – King of Kings, Woodbury, MN)
August 25, 2009 Pastor Yona Kinganga
Notes about this crop:
Remember the corn plot at Kilolo was one of the best corn crops of the CVP plots.
The number of people attended was 20. I was impressed the way they have been recording almost all the events instructed by the Institute of Agriculture. They haven’t thrashed their corn yet, they showed me the pile of corn inside the room at pastor’s house. I instructed them to thrashed corn as soon as possible since the corn looked dry enough.
They did harvest all the corn with mould or fungal diseases (Fussarium sp) and put into bags, the idea was to know and estimate the percentage damage caused by disease.
The reasons for the better yield
I stressed the successfully of the plot was due to their hard working and followed the Ag Institute’s recommendation and doing everything in a timely manner that is why the harvested ears of corn are big and well filled out.
Records:
Demonstration plot;
Ø First 10 meters – harvested amount 4.5 Kg or Liters of shelled corn.
Ø Second 10 meters –harvested amount 5.0 Kg or Liters of shelled corn
Ø Third 10 meters-harvested amount 6.0 Kg or Liters of shelled corn
Average in 10 meters in line is 5 Kg or Liters of shelled corn.
Neighbor’s farm; Pastor Kinganga’s Farm
Ø First 10 meters- harvested amount 3.0 Kg or Liters of shelled corn.
Ø Second 10 meters –harvested amount 2.25 Kg or Liters of shelled corn
Ø Third 10 meters –harvested amount 2.5 Kg or Liters of shelled corn
Average in 10 meters in line is 2.5 Kg or Liters of shelled corn.
The price of corn in One tin of shelled corn is 4,000/= TShs. (price due to August, 2009 and it is subjected to change anytime going up or down) until it will be subjected going up in October and no chances of going down again. We recommended they should store and sell when the price is up (Suggested time to sell is January, 2010)
Beans price is 14,000/= to 15,000/= per tin.
Seed Varieties:
Beans; they are happy with Urafiki Variety we introduced to them; they prefer to continue growing it this year 2009/2010 growing season.
Corn; they doubt with H628 reasons, it grows too tall and fall/lodge off after mature and attacked by fungal diseases due to high moisture.
With consultations with seed experts we may try H 6303 (note, we still need make decision on this matter) this variety of corn is tolerable with high moisture at maturity stage and work fine in high altitude especially in Dabaga area.
Problems occurred in 2008/09:
- Lack of sprayers, they rented from the neighbor and the Inst of Ag were charged 13,000/= TShs for 5 days. (2 times spraying)
- Stolen corn (approximately 1.5 bags of shelled corn.
Mwatasi-6th CVP Visit - Aug 25-2009
Ag Inst – Mwatasi
6th CVP Visit
(Partner – Trinity, Stillwater, MN)
Aug 25, 2009
Pastor Upendo Ndendiya
Notes about this crop:
Remember the corn crop at Mwatasi is one of the best in the CVP Program.
The reasons for this include:
They followed the Ag Institute’s recommendation for everything in a timely manner. The corn was very tall and the ears were well filled out.
The number of people attended was 5 people only; they recorded almost all events as instructed by Institute of Agriculture. They already harvested and shelled the corn; yield obtained is 29.5 Tins equivalent to 4.2 bags per ½ an acre. They said that they had a very nice looking corn in the field but the yield is lower because after corn matured started to rot due to high moisture in the area( Note; Mwatasi is located in a high altitude and normally experience heavy rains) They had similar disease of Mold or fungal like Kilolo. They harvested rot corn and put into bags (as they were instructed in the 5th Visit) so that we can estimate the percentage damage caused by disease.
I stressed about doing things in a timely manner that is why when you look ears of corn harvested are well filled out and good kernels.
They recorded down the different between their local varieties of beans (Red) Vs the Uyole Mkt we introduced to them, that the local variety yielded more beans but less weigh as compared to Uyole Mkt.
Total beans harvested was 3 tins and 14 Kg, they do believe poor yield was due to heavy rains, too much wind during the flowering stage which knocked down some of flowers and poor seeds or old seeds given to them because a lot of bean plants died.
-Uyole Mkt harvested amount 1 tin and 4 Kg
-Uyole 96 harvested amount 2 tins and 10 Kg
(Note 2 varieties were introduced to them as mentioned above)
For corn, a lot of corn after matured they rot but matured early than their local varieties. They trusted the H628 will work okay for them for selling roast corn, normally big truck come in the village and buy ears of corn before they dry and ship in cities e.g. Dar es Salaam and sell roasted corn. Most of them said they will grow this variety when they want to sell roast corn, but they would like to introduce a different variety for harvesting dried corn for food/ making Ugali.
Suggested Seed Variety:
- Corn H614
- Beans Uyole 96
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(Note; It is nice to hear how farmers now knows what variety to be grown for what purpose and explaining the reasons of why the problems occurred in their field)
Records:
Demonstration plot
Ø Up side of the plot, 10 meters- harvested amount 3.5 Kg or Liters of shelled corn
Ø Middle of the plot, 10 meters- harvested amount 3.75 Kg or liters of shelled corn
Ø Down the plot, 10 meters- harvested amount 3.75 Kg or liters of shelled corn.
Neighbor’s Farms:
Ø 1st neighbor – 10 meters- harvested amount 3.5 Kg or liters of shelled corn.
Ø 2nd neighbor – 10 meters – harvested amount 3.5 kg or liters of shelled corn.
Ø 3rd neighbor – 10 meters – harvested amount 3.75 Kg or liters of shelled corn.
Ø Normal church farm- harvested amount 0.75 Kg of shelled corn in 10 meters.
Ø Pastor’s farm(very close to our demonstration plot- harvested amount 0.75 Kg of shelled corn
Plot of Beans:
Ø First 10 meters- harvested amount 0.75 Kg or liters of shelled beans.
Ø Second 10 meters- harvested amount 0.5 Kg or liters of shelled beans.
Ø Third 10 meters- harvested amount 0.5 Kg or liters of shelled beans.
Neighbor’s records:
Ø They didn’t record.
The price of One tin of corn is 3,000/= TShs. Equivalent to 21,000/= TShs per bag.
The price of one tin of beans is 15,000/= TShs. Equivalent to 105,000/= TShs/bag.
Note: Both prices are due to August, 2009 in village.
6th CVP Visit
(Partner – Trinity, Stillwater, MN)
Aug 25, 2009
Pastor Upendo Ndendiya
Notes about this crop:
Remember the corn crop at Mwatasi is one of the best in the CVP Program.
The reasons for this include:
They followed the Ag Institute’s recommendation for everything in a timely manner. The corn was very tall and the ears were well filled out.
The number of people attended was 5 people only; they recorded almost all events as instructed by Institute of Agriculture. They already harvested and shelled the corn; yield obtained is 29.5 Tins equivalent to 4.2 bags per ½ an acre. They said that they had a very nice looking corn in the field but the yield is lower because after corn matured started to rot due to high moisture in the area( Note; Mwatasi is located in a high altitude and normally experience heavy rains) They had similar disease of Mold or fungal like Kilolo. They harvested rot corn and put into bags (as they were instructed in the 5th Visit) so that we can estimate the percentage damage caused by disease.
I stressed about doing things in a timely manner that is why when you look ears of corn harvested are well filled out and good kernels.
They recorded down the different between their local varieties of beans (Red) Vs the Uyole Mkt we introduced to them, that the local variety yielded more beans but less weigh as compared to Uyole Mkt.
Total beans harvested was 3 tins and 14 Kg, they do believe poor yield was due to heavy rains, too much wind during the flowering stage which knocked down some of flowers and poor seeds or old seeds given to them because a lot of bean plants died.
-Uyole Mkt harvested amount 1 tin and 4 Kg
-Uyole 96 harvested amount 2 tins and 10 Kg
(Note 2 varieties were introduced to them as mentioned above)
For corn, a lot of corn after matured they rot but matured early than their local varieties. They trusted the H628 will work okay for them for selling roast corn, normally big truck come in the village and buy ears of corn before they dry and ship in cities e.g. Dar es Salaam and sell roasted corn. Most of them said they will grow this variety when they want to sell roast corn, but they would like to introduce a different variety for harvesting dried corn for food/ making Ugali.
Suggested Seed Variety:
- Corn H614
- Beans Uyole 96
-
(Note; It is nice to hear how farmers now knows what variety to be grown for what purpose and explaining the reasons of why the problems occurred in their field)
Records:
Demonstration plot
Ø Up side of the plot, 10 meters- harvested amount 3.5 Kg or Liters of shelled corn
Ø Middle of the plot, 10 meters- harvested amount 3.75 Kg or liters of shelled corn
Ø Down the plot, 10 meters- harvested amount 3.75 Kg or liters of shelled corn.
Neighbor’s Farms:
Ø 1st neighbor – 10 meters- harvested amount 3.5 Kg or liters of shelled corn.
Ø 2nd neighbor – 10 meters – harvested amount 3.5 kg or liters of shelled corn.
Ø 3rd neighbor – 10 meters – harvested amount 3.75 Kg or liters of shelled corn.
Ø Normal church farm- harvested amount 0.75 Kg of shelled corn in 10 meters.
Ø Pastor’s farm(very close to our demonstration plot- harvested amount 0.75 Kg of shelled corn
Plot of Beans:
Ø First 10 meters- harvested amount 0.75 Kg or liters of shelled beans.
Ø Second 10 meters- harvested amount 0.5 Kg or liters of shelled beans.
Ø Third 10 meters- harvested amount 0.5 Kg or liters of shelled beans.
Neighbor’s records:
Ø They didn’t record.
The price of One tin of corn is 3,000/= TShs. Equivalent to 21,000/= TShs per bag.
The price of one tin of beans is 15,000/= TShs. Equivalent to 105,000/= TShs/bag.
Note: Both prices are due to August, 2009 in village.