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Training in Improved Agricultural Techniques for Increased Food Security

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Food shortages are a great concern in our village. During the dry season, our village is often struck by serious drought conditions which destroy crops in the fields often leaving people helpless - with no food in stores or gardens. The major source of income in our community is agriculture, but even so, this is practiced on a very small scale due to lack of capital and technical knowledge. Many families survive on one meal a day. A report recently indicated that "Because of the inflated prices, most households spent 51% of their income on food. Normally, the bulk of expenditure goes towards medical treatment and school fees."

HANDS IN SERVICE would like to offer training to members of the community on modern methods of agriculture and provide them with improved seeds. Knowing that drought is a reality we often face in our community, we would like to find a means to provide food relief in emergency situations.

For this task, we are asking volunteers to help train and guide us as to what needs to be done to improve our local agricultural yields.

Thank you,
Elamu Ronald (Coordinator)

Hands in Service
Project: Help Eradicate Extreme Poverty, Hunger, High Levels of Illiteracy and Backwardness
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ken hargesheimer
improve your farming
Sun, 2009/11/22 - 23:39

I am willing to help you improve your farming. You can double your yields and reduce your labor by 50% if the farmers are willing to use organic, no-till farming in permanent beds using bucket drip irrigation during the dry season. Other villages have done it. You do not buy anything from anybody except seed and tubing for drip irrigation. minifarms@gmail.com

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ken hargesheimer
Re: Training in Improved Agricultural Techniques for Increased Food Security
Mon, 2010/05/24 - 03:27

I am ready to help you with farming. You should use organic, no-till in permanent beds. During the dry season, use bucket drip irrigation. You will need funds only for seed for food crops and for green manure/cover crops. A bucket drip kit can be made for only a few US dollars.

Let me know if you are interested.

Ken Hargesheimer

Dear Ken,

Thank you for all the DVD’s you sent me. Thank you for all the info. I am applying it in my own vegetable patch. It is working. Got half a pocket of potatoes off a square metre. So would imagine about 10 pounds per square yard. This off previously dead low, carbon soil. Sure next crop will be better. Got yams coming up on same spot already. Want to plant herbs and spices. I will send photos.

Your advise is so simple. People do not believe me when I tell them. I am so excited about growing things now. This coming from a commercial plum farmer. May you be blessed this holy season a thousand times more than you blessed me with you help.Jeremy Karsen, middagkrans@mwebbiz.co.za

Thu, 2009/10/01
Hi Lia,
We have already started several gardens in Jinkfuin community and the people working on them have benefitted from the DVDS we received from Ken. We watched the DVDs and got so many lessons and there women and men already running gardens, good ones! Kimilili
Project room: Kyomya, Uganda
We have been working on improving farming techniques for almost a year. Unfortunately, the farmers are planting small plots of land that only feed their family. There is no other choice but to try new techniques to improve the output of their plot. Ken Hargesheimer suggested the "no till" farming techniques as well as the "drip system". Both have proven effective at increasing production by at least 5 fold. The time is now for Kyomya to become a model agricultural village. [nabuur.com]

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