Part 2!
Have you read part 1? If yes, please proceed ;o)
They have built a model of how a small scale farmer’s plot should look like, with everything from the house, animals, rain collector and of course the small agroforestry area where they demonstrated how a field with banana trees could be improved by planting some tobacco to keep insects away, trees to provide shade for the bananas and to provide timber, vanilla to do provide certain nutrients to the soil, and so on! So simple, but really good for the farmer’s income and the environment.
They even had built a toilet that separated human poop and pee to use as fertiliser, but it was not used here as the farmers living on the demo plot thought it was going over the limit ;o)
Among the crops they had coffee plants, and even though I hate the taste of coffee I really enjoy looking at the plant ;o)
Coffee beans!
We even bought a grafted (two species put into one, you can see the piece of tape holding them together) avocado plant that we named Ms Njo njo. She will be planted in our garden as soon as we get some sandy dirt and some manure!
Friday we went to Kajjalubanda to do our 2nd field visit.
The children playing around while we were interviewing the farmers/their parents.
Sara overlooking the focus group, helped by our supervisor Cotilda. And Sophie interviewing a farmer with the help of Teddy translating into Luganda.
The focus group.
Here, the farmers have had their savings meeting, we have done our focus group and interviews and now Cotilda is giving her comments to the group regarding its performance.
Byebyo! (That’s all!)
They have built a model of how a small scale farmer’s plot should look like, with everything from the house, animals, rain collector and of course the small agroforestry area where they demonstrated how a field with banana trees could be improved by planting some tobacco to keep insects away, trees to provide shade for the bananas and to provide timber, vanilla to do provide certain nutrients to the soil, and so on! So simple, but really good for the farmer’s income and the environment.
They even had built a toilet that separated human poop and pee to use as fertiliser, but it was not used here as the farmers living on the demo plot thought it was going over the limit ;o)
Among the crops they had coffee plants, and even though I hate the taste of coffee I really enjoy looking at the plant ;o)
Coffee beans!
We even bought a grafted (two species put into one, you can see the piece of tape holding them together) avocado plant that we named Ms Njo njo. She will be planted in our garden as soon as we get some sandy dirt and some manure!
Friday we went to Kajjalubanda to do our 2nd field visit.
The children playing around while we were interviewing the farmers/their parents.
Sara overlooking the focus group, helped by our supervisor Cotilda. And Sophie interviewing a farmer with the help of Teddy translating into Luganda.
The focus group.
Here, the farmers have had their savings meeting, we have done our focus group and interviews and now Cotilda is giving her comments to the group regarding its performance.
Unfortunately, it is not all peachy here at the moment. When we got to the office Friday, before going to the field, we heard that 3 people were killed in Kampala during riots on Thursday, which is why we are not in Kampala this weekend as we had planned to be. And when we got back from the field visit, the guard at the office told us that there had been gunfire in Masaka while we were away. So we went straight to our house and stayed in the rest of the day. Yesterday we were told by the guard from the office that everything was peaceful now, so today we went to the Tropic Inn hotel, had a nice breakfast, swam in the pool and worked on the tan. Now I have to go as I just got the pancake with icecream I've ordered ;o)
Overall, despite riots, we are progressing well and enjoying being here. It doesn’t feel unsafe as we haven’t heard or seen anything ourselves and everybody else appears to be out and around as normal except.
Oh, and 9 more mosquito bites... 6 of them acquired in less than 5 minutes while working at the office. It’s unacceptable!
Oh, and 9 more mosquito bites... 6 of them acquired in less than 5 minutes while working at the office. It’s unacceptable!
Byebyo! (That’s all!)
posted by Maria at 3:40 PM
3 Comments:
Hur är det med människobajs som gödsel egentligen? Jag var på middag igår och vi pratade om det en del. Vissa av deltagarna menade att man har försökt använda bajs men att det är förbjudet för att det bli giftigt på nåt sätt. Men det måste ju bero på hur man processar det?
Du får ta med mig till den där "plantskolan" när jag kommer ner. Skulle vara skitkul att se alla växterna på riktigt.
Du är saknad här hemma. Puss.
M.
Jag och Renée tänkte på dig igår med tanke på oroligheterna som vi hade hört om. När sånt händer så brukar de som befinner sig på plats ha mindre koll än dem "hemma". Hoppas det fortsätter vara lugnt.
kram
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