Lulanzi July 20, 2010

2010 CVP
Companion Village Project
Visit Report
6th Visit Year One
July 20, 2010


Village Lulanzi
Pastor Tuluwene Gavile
Companion Christ, Lake Elmo
Attendees 6
Weather for the past month Cloudy and cold
Reporters Gabriel , Ibrahim, Rev. Mang’ulisa

In this visit we were accompanied by Miss Leah Mlay, Law lecturer of Tumaini University who was interested to learn about the demonstration plots and the CV Project. As we arrived, we met few members in the church area. Pastor told us they have been working in building the parish dispensary since morning and some left when the work was over. We went to the church for the short meeting and demonstration.
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
Beans have not been harvested yet. The corn have been harvested but not yet threshed.
Amounts in bags/plot
( ½ Acre) Yield in 10m in 3 lines( For further analysis) Remarks
Corn Litres 5.5 6 3 Yield higher than local variety
No. of plants 28 29 28
Beans Litres
No. of plants

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 pesticides “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
The improved variety we introduced this year (H6303) does not have the severe rotting problem like that of last year. However since they experience poor germination we told them the harvest will not be as higher as it supposed to be.
• Beans
The Urafiki variety performs very well here. However they experience the fungal disease .There was delay applying pesticides “Thionex” because of the poor communication with us at the time the disease started. Therefore this will have significant reduction in yield. Beans have not been harvested yet.

Comments/questions
 The availability of corn seeds (H6303) is not reliable. In last year these seeds were not available in most of the shops selling agricultural inputs
Sometimes one type of seeds disappear in the market but when demand increases the seed producing company takes the seeds back to the market. Probably the seeds will be available in the market this year.

 On behalf of the members of his congregation, Pastor express sincere thanks to the institute and to the companion congregation for the supporting of the demonstration plot and offer training to his congregation. We encourage them to adopt the techniques we teach and give us the feedback.

Conclusion
We told Pastor to send us the bean yield measurements once they harvest. We need them for our records and analysis.