Ifunda - House of Prayer - CVP Visit Report - May 15-2013

2010 CVP Companion Village Project 5th Visit Year Three May 15, 2013 Village Ifunda Pastor Elay Mwinuka Companion House of Prayer, Oakdale Attendees 10 Weather for the past month Dry Institute staff Gabriel and Venace Today we visited two villages, Kitasengwa and Ifunda. We met the parish members and other villagers waiting for us at he Ifunda church. The demonstration meeting took place using the near by corn and bean plots. Purpose of the visit • Demonstrating on how to take yield measurements Topics 1. Review of the handouts o 5th Visit handout o Yield recording sheet 2. Demonstrations We demonstrated on to take the yield measurements. We instructed them to measure 10 m rows from which the plants and ears will be counted. Then the process should be repeated to the bean plot. The same thing should be done to collect the yields from the neighbour’s plots for comparison with the demonstration plot. 3. Crop storage We instructed the villagers on how to store the crops. The advantages of storing crops for long give a farmer a change to sell that crop when the price is high enough and also ensure food security in the household Questions/Comments from participants  Pastor deliver thanks to the nstitute and to the companion congregation for sponsoring the demonstration plot. He said that the plot has helped them to learn new techniques and also they have used it as for testing various seed varieties  There many types of fertilizers, what should we use here? There is no definite answer for this. In fertilizers we look at the type of nutrients contained and the fertility of soil we are going to use that fertilizer. According to the soil analysis we did here we recommend high application of N,P and K , that is why we use NPK to the demonstration plots. We advise you o use that fertilizers in your farms too.  What if I use Urea for the second application? Urea is also good fertilizer for second application. It has N that is highly needed at the time the plants are at knee high. You may use Urea for the second application Conclusion We told them than we will come back on August for another demonstration meeting and to collect the yield menasurements. The evaluation for the performance of the demonstation plots will be done at that time of the year.