Sundays with Robert

Robert is our Manager of Farms and regularly spends his Sundays tutoring local Secondary Schools students for their exams. He uses a selection of books in the farm library, as school books are really expensive and scarce in Malawi. Only a small fraction of students in any classroom will have school texts.

Roberts report for the week passed.

Hi John and Mary.
This is our weekly Report for this past week from Lusangazi
Conservation and Practical work on Crop propagation Farm.

The activities that were carried out are as follows:

DIMBA: Continuing Constructing sunken seedbed to be transplanted with
Rape, Musterd and Broccoli. Also to be sown with direct seed
Beetroots, Pumpkin and Parsley. (We already found customer to be buy
these vegetables), Cleaning water channels, Thinning banana and collecting
residues to compost, also watering vegetables.

GREEN HOUSES: Continuing Practical work with our fellow Vistors from
Mzimba (Training on Budding and Grafting). We were budding Nacet
Tangerine and Avocado Pea scion collected by Felix. Also application
of natural pesticide to get rid of aphids from citrus seedlings.
ORGANIC: Making compost from dry matters, green matter(Dahlia and
Tephrosia leaves) and Cow dung. Also making pesticides from sisal and
tephrosia leaves for treating aphids to vegetables.
Upper field, general activities was harvesting Zambian seed(Maize and
Ground nuts) and making compost.

REMARKS: We are now being told that Lusangazi farm it's not only farm of sowing stuff but also it's a training institution because all vistors who come are very excited and sastified with our Local Agriculture technology . This is encouraging us to do better.

Robert