Tumaini U-Theology Stdnts- CVP Report Jan 23-2010

2010 CVP
Companion Village Project
Visit Report
4th Visit Year two
January 23rd, 2010


Village Tumaini University Students (Theology)

Companion Augustana
Attendees 4 Students and 3 people from nearby farms
Weather for the past month Rainy
Reporters Ibrahim, Gabriel and Roger

Purpose of the visit
• Planting bean and fertilizer application demonstrations
• Demonstration on second fertilizers application in corn
• Deliver fertilizer bags, Bean seeds, bottle spray, and insecticides
Topics
1. Greetings
Roger gave greetings and explained the importance of following the techniques we instructed.
2. Went through the handouts
o 4th Visit handout
o Quiz handout
3. Demonstrations
We demonstrated how to measure inter row spacing (30cm). Using a string and a hand hoe it was demonstrated how to make a trench for planting the bean seeds. One seed was placed after every 10 cm. It was demonstrated how to place one full bottle cap of fertilizer between 2 seeds i.e. Seed-seed-fertilizer-seed-seed-fertilizer etc.

4. Fertilizer and seed delivery
According to the analysis of the soil of this area, the type of fertilizer recommended was NPK (10-18-24) for bean seed planting. The congregation was given 2 NPK bags and 40 Kg of bean seeds, variety of bean seeds delivered is UYOLE 96. We also delivered 2 bags (50 Kg each) of CAN for second fertilizer application to corn field.






Comments
 They came with sprayer (15 litres size) ready to spray their corn just after receiving the insecticides.

 They hired oxen to cultivate the bean field, because it was hard to organize students to go chip off the weeds due to different semester timetable.

 We had only 4 students, even though the expectation was over 15 students, this was due to one of the lecturers who decided to have a review class with them on Saturday the day we had schedule to meet them.

Questions from audience and answers

 They asked about the bean spacing and why we changed from 50 cm by 9 cm.
The answer is yes, but we also want to have a higher plant population for a better yield.

 If they don’t have enough fertilizer as we recommend what they can do?
We suggested to them to use manure (compost) or to go for large spacing that will give them maximum plant population per area.

Conclusions/Recommendations
We told them that this program is conducted in 20 villages/parishes and we are hoping to add ten more parishes 2011. We emphasized the importance of them following instructions because in the future after graduating from Tumaini University they will be posted in one of the parishes that have been trained or haven’t been trained. They will need to be good teachers to train people in their parishes. The success of the program depends upon them following what we instructed. They promised to follow all the instructions.