Ekombitie agriculture workshop report

 

Presenté par M. MOTCHADJE WAGUIA François Head of the Agriculture Department.

🌱 Introduction

At the occasion of the donation and assistance visit on 26 March, we spent a pleasant day full of joy with the children of the Ekombitié social support centre for education and leisure and adults from the locality. The aim was to reach out to these children, to perform an act of charity and to support them in various activities, including agricultural techniques. It should be noted that setting up workshops to demonstrate agricultural techniques within the HAMA FOUNDATION is a real strategy for supporting institutions in the field of agriculture.

The aim of this workshop is to popularise good agricultural techniques (PIF, PIQUETAGE ET DEMARIAGE DU MAIS) to the children of the centre and to the farmers who have come to support the activity and learn about agriculture. The workshop was conducted by Mr. MOTCHADJE WAGUIA François, head of the agriculture department.

In fact, he proposed that the activity be carried out in three phases: presentation of the subject, presentation of the materials and support, and finally the design and implementation of the objectives.

🎯 objectives

✅ Getting children involved in the agricultural sector

✅ Disseminating good agricultural practices

🪴 Activity

The activities of the agricultural workshop took place as follows. Subject corn stripping is an agricultural technique to reduce the density of corn in the field in order to improve the yield and decrease the density of the planted corn while leaving 2 to 3 plants depending on the producer’s objectives and plant vigour. Staking is a technique used in agriculture to mark out pits with stakes into which pits are later dug and sown. The staking used in our workshop was 3*3 in-line. Equipment used stakes, double decameter corn, string, knives, offspring

When we arrived on the field we hid the different materials of the agricultural workshop including milestones, space for making rejects. After this step we started by choosing the plot to be staked, then we used a double tape measure, 3 people and 3 stakes to draw the base line using the right-angled triangle formula. We then placed stakes at a distance of 3m between the planes and 3m between the lines and explained to the different participants the advantages of staking on the yield of their crop.

For the PIF, we chose healthy shoots that were favourable to the multiplication of the plantain, and then we proceeded to the preparation of the shoot by eliminating the false trunk until the destruction of the apical meristem with a knife. In the case of maize, we explained to them how to remove the husk and when to do it.

It should be noted that not all the children were able to benefit from this workshop because all the workshops were held simultaneously.

🌀 Suggestion

Accompanying outings with well-structured training programmes, with the aim of better organising the different workshops and encouraging children to participate rationally in all the workshops organised.

🌱 Conclusion

Psychologically accompanying these orphans with the agricultural workshop is a big challenge for us. We wish to work with the aim of shaping within these institutions, men and women endowed with intellectual capacities, knowledge, know-how, know-how, skills by giving them all the necessary tools, which will enable them in the future to set up personal projects and allow them to become entrepreneurs and creators of wealth.

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