Report for Sustainable Agriculture Project from Narus, South Sudan 009

1- TITLE:

2- BRIEF INTRODUCTION:

3- ACTIVITIES DONE:

• Replanting/ Changing of seeds which was planted before and failed to germinate ( Maize) was replaced with Sorghum which currently is doing well in the field.
• - First and second Weeding of Sorghum is done.
• - Motivating workers done successfully with the last donation received in May.
• - Purchased of some additional tools like hand hoe, Gumboots and pesticide.
• - Purchased of male Duck to help our only survived female Duck with money generated from vegetable.

4- PLANS ACTIVITIES:

• Plan to repair door for the Poultry.
• Preparing new Nursery bed for seedlings like Egg plants and Sukuma wiki.
• Preparing to make second round of spray affected part of Sorghum field although it started flowering.

5- ACHIEVEMENT:

• Paying school fees inkind for nine (9) boys done with vegetable.
• Purchased of some requirement & basic needs for our children in school i.e Mattresses, Soap, Bedsheets and toothbrush and the report will be given when am giving final report concerning money generated from vegetable.
• A male Duck was bought to help female duck.
• First harvest of Egg plants done.

6- CHALLENGES:

• Limited market for our vegetable produce due to high numbers of farmers producing the same crops.
• Lack of Means of Transport especially Four wheel! This one would have help us much in transporting our produce to a main Market like Kapoeta or even up to Juba were we can able to sell in good price.
• Domestic and bush animals encroaching our garden several times although for Domestic we normally talked to the owner.
• Some parts of Sorghum field was attacked and affected by army warm.

7- RECOMMENDATION:

• Better to have our own means of Transport like four wheels motor vehicle which may help us to transport our produce either to Kenya or Juba were we can able to sell in a good price.
• Provision of improved equipment such as Tractor with ploughs and Trailer which can help us to cultivate in large hectares.

8- CONCLUSION: