Permaculture
Hoja has been looking into ways to help local farmers in Tanga ward work sustainably and Oswin has been telling us about some of the impact in his monthly reports:
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| NEGESO Rice Farm, Songea |
Permaculture being the new thing to Songea community, but many people have proved that it is very important. An IGP group NEGESO attended the course and have applied the knowledge in the rice growing. They were doing this even before but they were using fertilizers. But this year they have done it without using fertilizers, instead they have used composite manures, the results have been very positive.
They are saying,they will get good profit as they have not used too much money as composite manures are free. Also they have used free natural pesticides. Gregory, the chair person of the Group said, "We were getting 61-70 sacks of rice for this portion of land, I hope this year we shall get more harvests. We were using 6 bags of fertilizers,but this year we have not used any fertilizer. We were using about 45,000Tshs [£23] for pesticides, but this year, it is free. This is very important education to the poor communities."Vocational Training Centre & Non-Formal Secondary Education
While the Non-Formal Secondary Education students in Form Two were graduating in November 2010 (pictured above), the Vocational students were taking their national exams.
This month we found out their results and we're pleased that 18 out of the 21 students entered passed their exams in carpentry, building or tailoring. The other three students will have the opportunity to re-take in May - all of them passed the practical part of the exam, but failed the written theory exam.
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