Ipogoro - Augustana Luth; CVP Report for Nov 11-2010

2010 CVP
Companion Village Project
Visit Report
3rd Visit 3rd Year
November, 11 2010

Village Ipogoro
Pastor NIckson Mwitula
Companion Augustana Luth.
Attendees Male 11 Female 7
Weather Sunny
Reporters Nafeti,Phil, Itiweni, Pongolani

Purpose of the visit
• Delivering seeds and fertilizers
• Demonstrating corn planting and fertilizer applications
• Provide information on micro finance Institute


Greetings
Before we began the demonstration, Phil delivered greetings from St. Paul Area Synod and US Institute of Ag advisory committee
Review of the handouts
Together with them we went through the handouts
• 3rd Visit Instruction
• Plant population with 60 cm. rows and Fertilizer applications
• Fertilizer needs template

Demonstrations
o Planting and fertilizer applications
We demonstrated on how to place seeds and how to apply fertilizers. We insisted that they should not place seeds and fertilizers together. There should be at least 5cm apart.
o Seeds and fertilizers
We delivered 2 bags of NPK and corn seeds.

Crop Seeds Fertilizer
Varieties Amount Type Amount
Corn Pioneer 3253 8kg (4 bags ) NPK 100kg (2 bags)






Questions from the audience

• If you use different corn variety from the one you planted last year is it necessary to use different fertilizer?
No need of using different fertilizer if at all you are using the right kind of fertilizer.
• Old people have trouble changing from the use of organic manure to commercial fertilizer. How do we convince them to change?
The best way to convince them is by doing a good job in our demo plot through that they can notice the difference and slowly they can start to adopt.
• We would like to use the techniques in our own farms but the problem is money to buy quality seed and fertilizer.
You can begin with proper spacing and leaving crop residues on the field will help to increase crop yield. Micro-finance Institute of Tumaini University is aiming at empowering people so that members of SACCOs will have money to buy Inputs.
• What have you learned?
− Learned how to use fertilizers
− Learned how to plant properly using high quality seeds
− Can harvest more grain from a small plot of land
− How to harvest and dry crops
− Learned how to retain soil moisture using crop debris
− Do frequent visits to shamba

Conclusion

Pastor Nickson has taught 20 others, plus an orphanage about our farming techniques.