Ugesa - Christ Luth - CVP Visit Report - June 24-2013

2011CVP Companion Village Project & PCT 5th Visit, Year Two June 24, 2013 Village Ugesa Pastor Paschal Fyataga Companion Christ Lutheran Attendees 04 Weather for the past month Cloudy and cold Reporters Gabriel and Venance We arrived in the Ugesa village afternoon as we were coming from Wami village. We met a group of few members of the parish. There is village meeting today and most of the villagers have gone to attend the meeting. 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 It was demonstrated on how to measure the 10 m row (in three different locations within the demonstration plot and neighbour's farm). Farmers were instructed to count the number of corn plants and ears. Yield recording sheets were provided. 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 4. Marketing We reminded them that this is the time that they should start to explore various marketing options. It's important they seek market information so as to keep up to date with the crop prices Demonstration plots This village has three demonstration plots; Corn, beans and pyrethrum. Bean plot has already been harvested. Corns are still in the field. We introduced new variety here because last year hybrid variety had ear rotting problem. This year variety (TMV) was resistant to ear rotting. However, it had germination problem. The gaps can be seen in the field. We instructed attendees to harvest and measure yields, using those measurements we can evaluate the performance of the variety Conclusion We told them that we will be back in August to pick the yield measurement records and discuss with them storage and marketing issues.