muses THE TREE SRE. dein A TIST UGANDA'S Publication BR es Volume 1 Issue No. 62 JUNE. 2014 TIST Uganda June 2014 Newsletter rr . EIHURIRE RWO'KWAMUKAGA 2014 grofohandifiwas aba TIST Uganda, elagl rya he Intemational Small Group and Tree planting program = EDITORS MESSAGE. 0 DORAKWAITU 15T p'edigombe efcyehareyo kwimulsya - es ified iat Great news is a pleasure. CERUbONgYSram Amari gokunsanisa rrkucwekyererbwa low'ebbars, okwegina . 4 ctona iekyunda fir kyabusio, Many of our SGs/ groves were validated by E.5.Inc. = BIC YENDERERWA BYATU Our TIST farmers will in future be paid according to TILA BNyEa enianguics yEnhuica low much carbon has been sequestered by their Inokunndana orwya orufurigl h ; E orsukiruga mums TIST nehwera groves. Be patient for that great news. abahingl abankurenga 25,000, sbyokwarinds Seimu,endisa enungi | Ara ata Ta PREFACE Obutumwabwa edita. w TAKING CARE OF TREES. OUR RESPONSIBILITY. SMALL GROUP PAYMENTS Amakuru marungi gaba ckyomuhendo. RULES FOR PAYMENT Eg Fis Bicker - ) x TIST SMALL GROUP MEETINGS Fbibira’ amahamba gaitu meingi gahinguzibwe ACHIEVE MORE TOGETHER Nr ey iy IST HELPED ME START MY gaikirizibwa aba E.S ku abahingi bain ba TIST HLISINESS AND HELP OTHER Ct irs batandika kushashurwa sente zorwoya oru emiti eri REVENMT SOIL EROSION; SAVE : 4 ‘a . UT TARR kukwata. Mube mugumisirize okuhisya _ EBIROMUNOA obukirakorwcho. w OKUREEBERERA EMIT ORUTUNANIZIBWA BWAITL, Ara. . = ENSHASHLIRA YA ZA GURLILPY EMITWARIZE YAAKWE. = ENSHASHUIRA YA ZA GURLIPL -EMITWARIZE YAAKWE. » ENKIKO ZE BIGOMBE BYA TIST: KUGOBERA KIHANGO WETERAINE wRINDA EITAKA RYAWE RITATWARWA OMUTUNGA J TAKING CARE OF TREES- OUR RESPONSIBILITY. ByRukunyu Tutangukye Group. We the members of Rukunyu Tutungukye arc among the hundreds of Small Groups who have joined the TIST Program, Since joining this program, we have benefited from the trainings offered, and as a result made significant achievements in growth of our Small Group. For instance, our members have tripled their tree planting effort. This has resulted nan almost 300% incressein number of trees inour farms. From the trainings, and throngh exchanging and sharing of best practices in cluster trainings, we have learned new and better ideas in nursery establishment and management, tree planting and management, Initially, we didn’t consider that trees require care Tike any other crop, We used to leave them untended, and this often resulted in many of our seedlings dying early. © Thenew best practices that we have leamed in TIST have taught us the importance of proper tending of mature. This inchedes appropriate spacing — which depends on tree species, but should be no less than 2 meters. Weeding and pruning are also part of taking care of the trees, together with regular inspection for pests or other diseases. Besides tree planting, cor Small Group is involved in practicing Conservation Farming. Conservation Farming is an improved fuming technique that has allowed us to get higher yields from small pices of land. We hold our meeting every week and we do practice This has enabled us to instill a sense of ownership in every member of our Small Grong, and most importantly, harnesses and improves our leadership qualities as well as making our Small Croup strong. SMALL GROUPPAYMENTS: RULES FOR PAYMENT By Sarah Nankunda. Your Small Group should have more than 500 frees. Yonir trees must have been quantified. If your Small Group has not met this requirement; vou will be required to put more effort in planting more trees in : Ecttinig training and camming and shar newly the coming rainy season. When you do that, make sure that vou attend training meetings in voor nearest location and notify TIST guantificrs of vour readiness tobequantified. TP Your Small Group needs to have planted your trees in a proper spacing (best practice 3 spacing 2m). Your small group should have clean groves: always: make sure that your trees are well tended in a clemm etivironment. It is important to have a fire line around your groves and tp clear away dead branches and weeds that can make fire more severe, Your Small Group members must have signed the Groenhouse Gas contract miclivadually. You must make sure that the signatures appearing in the contract arc true and cormect signatures of the members. Ifthe signatures and names are nit comect, you will be required 10 sign afresh. Your Small Group will only be | paid if all of these are correct, : ; Remember, [Lis important that atiend monthly training netings. -4 m and minimum wr Sell Group At meetings, besides developed best practices, vou will recove TIST opdates. At Closter meetings, you will get a chance to = share best practices with other Small Groups. Tt will 1 be easier to learn what other Small Groups are doing. =" and to work together to overcome challenges. Srinall Growps that attend meetings are given the: first priority in quantification. We will als sobe i priority in payments. Ttis therefore important hat ven send at least 3 representatives (members of your Small Croup) toparticipate in each meshing. —) Finally; in TIST, we are Mutually A ceountable, [ Honest, and Accurate. This means cachol ushas a \ { role in the payment process! We shold review our 1 vouchers together as grotp 10 hee sure that the trees Quantified is an accurate count of the TIST trees in our-groves. If there is a mistake, we should notify the i TIST staff so that it can be comected, When we work together, in payments and in the rest of oor work in TIST, we can have great success. pe Ne - = . he | TISTSMALL GROUP MEETINGS: ACHIEVE MORE TOGETHER. By Kaiungidsaph, NyakabingoTpeMitooma. TIST meetings are good. They help to bring us together to work with one heart to achieve a common gal | Fike the meetings of our small group at the village level When we micet, we make our own observations and decisions which help to promote us to another level in development. We review the work we have doe and discuss matiers conceming our small group, The mectingsare mdually scheduled. Each member has a chance to chair the meeting, hence practicing rotational | leadership. AL the end of cach meeting, we build up the bender and co-leader of the day. In our small group meeting, we rv to visit our members and look at what they have done, fo see their Conservation Farming, nursery bed preparation, thinning and pruning of trees, and sometimes to work + together cleaning our groves and making fire lines around our ree groves. in the meetings, we loam and discuss whether all of our tree groves have been quantified and if not. we alest the quantifiers to do it. We again come lo know “whether we have been paid and if no, we visit the TIST office and get information from them. During our meetings, we tram each other, Those of 1s wh hive skills in one area share those skills and strengths With others so we may all eam from each othr. We hive leamed a lot and we encourage all the small eroups in Ur ACE 10 CAFTY ut meetings. They dohelp. fo Before wee go for cluster meetings, we anesd small group meetings for the good of our small groups. Let all small groups have meetings. You will really scea difference, God bless vou, TIST HELPED ME START MY BUSINESS AND HELP OTHER TIST FARMERS. © By Kano, Fif Kashenyi. We have realised thet TIST can play an important mole in helping us start up business ventures. - The tre incentive I get from my TIST trees has acted as my start up capital for my enterprise. [ have mow started processing mango juice drink, am selling it and getting income to support my family. | have been able to start up a iruil processing enterprise to make juice drinks from mangoes. oranges and paw paws, [ase mangos from my grove and others from TIST farmers. practice Conservation Farming which has increased on my harves!, Ihave enough food for my family and the surpls harvest from conservation farming ix sold to increase my mcoere. TIST has Brought joy to ey Fimily, neighbodrs and friends. It has helped me start a business that provides a market lor fraft from other TIST farmers, and so help them as well. My business now also provides income for those I have empliy eed in my enterprise, so they also get some money for their well being. Lam really grateful to TIST because it has improved my standard of living. Lencourmge evenhodid io grow full trees, especally rmungocs, oranges and paws paws. My enterprise is 11 position to buy these Fruits from your groves, and © will work with youta transport your fruit from your home to my processing center. - Long live 1517 : Let's all plant more mdigenou trees and fruit trees, practice Consrvation Fanming, and w use organic manure. We shall pin in fess and harvest moe. PREVENT SOIL EROSION: SAVE YOUR LAN! By Kusigwa, Kyanamira [Tillop Farmer Gr, Kabale, Soil erosion is the removal of the fenile, productive, upper suriace of the land trom ene plc lo another: Far example, topsoil is washed out from a hillside into a river in heavy gin, When we lise this soil from our farms, our harvest can suffer for vears to come, What can we do? The most important factor causing soil erosion is poor farming practices. When people cultivate Band without taking care to use good methods of farming, for example, when we tl on steep hills and riverbanks and leave soil bare, SEE wash the pood topsoil away. Anather cause of erosion is grazing too many cartle or sheep in a small arca. When animals graze the same area fora long time, they always break the layer of the soil nto small particles, They can destroy the grass, bush. and trees that hold the soil with their roots. This mikes it easy Tor the topsoil particles on the surface 10 be carried away by wateror wind. There are good measures 1 protect our land trom the danger of soil erosion, First, when you are preparing war firm; donot remove oF bum dead weeds. Instead, your can divide your farm into portions of 30 tor 35 meters and arrange the residues from one side of thie farm to the other side, making terraces against (ng slope, Then take the soil and put on top of the residues to make the terraces again, These terraces can slow water running down the hill and catch soil. Another way iso pul some residues between lines of crops. Also remember that the farm needs to have 308% of residues remaining in order to decompose and imperve soil fertility. ‘This method of making terraces works in other areas 10 prevent soil erosion as well. On top of the terraces, you may plant trees 5S tol0) micters apart so that when they grow, the roots may, hold the soit and keep it from being taken away by running water, The number of terraces to make depends an the size of your farm. You may pul one terrace euch 3010 3% meters, or closer on a sleep slope. TIST conservation Farming methods also area good method, since vou da not till the soil. Alive fence of trees around a field, or row of trees or uncultvaied land within vour fields can alse show soil erosion. For the problem of over-grazing, it is better for livestock keepers to keep the animals contained for Fero-grazing. or to reduce the number of animals that gram the land, Protect your land and share your best practices with other TIST farmers to keep Uganda green and prinductive, OKUREEBERERA EMITI: OBLUJUNANIZIEWA BWALTL, By Rukunyu Tutungukye Group. Ttwee barmermba ba TIST aba Roky Distungukye tur hares amuriza gurtupl eatmcdib web Juba. ¥ Kwiha nites omukigombe iutungiremu ebiniu bingi kurabira omukutirideb wi. » Ekyokureeberaho nhingine criti mamgi baib emirundi eshatu, Eiko tvashings emit haihi ebicweka 300 ghar 1 (Hh omumisic vai. » Kurigiriir omurmishome co (0 ungine hanmwe no’ kubagana amar gerifinre mining b yor 3 hi : F “br Ormurkubanzs nubabatuts fo hakubyarm emia, kandi kik balighrestcra val or eke. Fat ckwegyesibwa okutv iungine cou TIS 1 twegire Kuregberera crit kurtign omubiito kuhisyacharzire. Omunimwe hui okegiba emyanya kuriginra ahabika boson obuiaza hansf yamita 2, okugy omer, rn okugisharira nabyonibimwe ahandebor ca nung y emit ate honokugireeberers gu etka glut oko nw ezindi ndwara. ue * Okwongyerahakubyaraemil chigennibe batty nibihinga birikurinda crwesem ow iiaka. Okuhinga n"okurinda oewesso nigumwe aha mihingire y omutindo eri |Luretera ehihing a bya yerakinigs shaitaka Tikve, Reger
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