FEBRUARY MARCH 2010 NEWSLETTER.
MARCH 2010
Beat up refers lo the replacement of weak or bad seedlings. weeks after planting start monitoring and obsenving your whether there could be any seedlings that are weak or have died if yc you' find that between 10%-30% are either weak or have died then it is better to beat up {replace)the dead seedlings. If more than 30% have died, the best thing is to replant the whole area. However, the benefits of beating up will be best
surviving seedings will be young 0 as to grow up with the ones that
OBUTUMWA BWA EDITA. Enjura ya Katumba ebaire nyingi kwonka itwe abahingi nomugisha ~~ 1 gwaitu kukora fumonga Sov emiti mingi ekarinda obuhangwa bwensi yaitu. The rains of autumn has been heavy and it is our chance as
farmers to do more and plant trees in plenty sc that we keep the Thank you. Sav. NO to Hunger. Use Conservation Farming - More harvest. Less Work! Do you know that you can double your harvest this season by practicing
Clear your lot out of weed and bushes. Do not plough. :
Prepare your holes oblong (rectangle) shape. They should be between {50m wide. 35cm long and 15cm deep
Space holes at least 75cm apart.
Take some manure and good topsoil and mix it together, or use compost manure. Fill the hole with the mixture
up to So from the surface.
When you plant the maize seeds (1 2 days before rains start), plant 4 seeds in the soil across the hole. If you
are planting sorghum, plant 5-6 seeds at each end of the planting hole after a good shower of rain
Cover the seeds with 2.5cm of the rich soil and manure mixture. After this the soil in the hole should he shout
25cm below the surface of the field. :
Garbage collection makes the farmer to achieve the right goals of getting compost manure Collecting the garbage which is un wanted matter in a place i is good if the farmer sorts it out as the organic substarice is heaped in one place and then treat it under good pressure for rotting and foun the wanted manure, | The un rotting is and to cover this heap such that pollution may not make the place un Gleasint Put in another place and don’t cover plastics and bottle piso, The rubbish is therefore put in compost pit and treated for the fates to gel Manure
especially compost one which is needed these days to enrich our soils.
Planting of any crop using the compost manure is weal if the farmer had collected I garbage sorted it and treated it. The Kitchen refusal, weeds and rotting plants and animal remains are good souices ol
compost which enriches our gardens, The best yield may be got if we are clean wher we do not stain our environment, Therefore collecting garbage sorting it out to get the best manure is ideal to TIST farmers.
Thank you. Rev Enoch WHAT HAPPENS IN OUR NORMAL TIST SMALL GROUP MEETINGS? Greetings and introduction for any new members (5-15 minutes) This is done to make sure everyone feels welcomed. With a new person in the group, we use pair share method for introductions,
Opening prayer (zminutes) We do this only if the group ages, we find thisahelpfal way. © |pa oe andeows which will trample upon: graze on valuable tres en while stil a their early stages of growth while trees in weeded and clean groves don’t experience such.
“« In addition to that, in cases of fire out breaks it is relatively easier to extinguish fires in weeded groves than bushy ones, Lin all the adyice is that we weed our tree groves to avoid pests & diseases, domestic &vild timals attiekins the groves, GH groves against fires so that we can have healthy and better
owths for better returns.
AGABA DENIS,
Ouansifibe Bushenys.