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.
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