Kyaminyawandi parents embrace school garden

Parents opening up Cassava garden at Kyaminyawandi Primary School

                                                                         BIC Staff with the parents in the school garden

 

parents discussing after working in the school garden

The Head Teacher Kyaminyawandi PS, going back to office after meeting with the parents

A school garden is an innovative teaching tool and strategy that lets educators incorporate hands-on activities in a diversity of interdisciplinary, standards based lessons. The garden engages students by providing a dynamic environment in which to observe, discover, experiment, nurture, and learn. It is a living laboratory where lessons are drawn from real-life experiences rather than textbook examples, allowing students to become active participants in the learning process. Through the garden, students gain an understanding of ecosystems, an appreciation for food origins and nutrition, and knowledge of plant and animal life cycles. At the same time, they learn practical agricultural skills that last a lifetime.

Running a school garden requires not only agricultural knowledge but also “people skills”. Other useful qualities are enthusiasm and organizational capacity. There is need to plan and manage, find resources, get help and support, keep in touch with those involved, organize garden work and lessons, motivate people, and publicize garden achievements. Fundamental part of the school gardens of the CEP is the involvement of parents with management and work on the school garden. In addition through involvement of agricultural extension services (LG, NAADS, MAAIF, etc) the school garden will be used as a broader learning centre. In the last phase the school garden learning site will be linked with more learning sites at Household level in the community.

The purpose of the garden at School is to enable increase in food security through increased productivity and incomes at household level; secondly it should lead to improved quality of education at primary school level through effective participation of parents in school activities.

BIC will continue to update her partners on the school garden concept using multimedia approach.

Compiled by:

1. Geofrey Isingoma

2. Mairam Lhumika

3. Edson Kule

 

Market Information from UCE

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MARKET INFORMATION AS AT 4^th APRIL 2012

S/N	COMMODITY	UNITS	KABALE	KASESE	MBALE	MBARARA	OWINO
1	Beef	Kg	7,000	7,000	8,000	6,000	8,000
2	Cassava four	Kg	1,300	850	1,200	1,533	1,200
3	Arabica coffee	Kg	-	6,400	4,800	-	-
4	Exotic chicken	Bird	13,000	15,000	9,500	11,667	9,667
5	Exotic eggs	Tray	8,000	8,500	7,500	7,500	7,000
6	Fresh cassava	Kg		2,000	300	1,833	1,400
7	Goat meat	Kg	8,000	9,000	9,000	8,500	12,000
8	Ground nuts	Kg	3,400	3,600	3,500	4,000	3,667
9	Irish potatoes	Kg	700	1,500	1,300	2,000	1,000
10	Local chicken	Bird	18,000	15,000	7,600	16,333	18,000
11	Local eggs	Tray	15,000	8,500	15,000	14,500	13,000
12	Maize flour	Kg	2,000	1,600	1,400	1,700	1,667
13	Maize grain	Kg	600	550	795	1,400	1,000
14	Matooke	Bunch	16,500	9,500	18,000	15,000	21,333
15	Matooke	Kg	-	350	1,500	2,167	513
16	Milk	Litre	800	1,200	1,200	1,000	1,300
17	Millet flour	Kg	1,800	1,850	2,000	2,500	2,000
18	Millet grain	Kg	1,600	1,200	1,500	1,967	1,517
19	Namable beans	Kg	1,700	2,100	2,000	2,200	2,167
20	Pineapple	Whole	1,000	1,500	2,500	1,833	1,667
21	Pork	Kg	-	7,000	7,000	12,000	-
22	Sorghum flour	Kg	1,700	1,500	1,250	2,400	1,033
23	Sorghum grain	Kg	1,450	800	900	1,867	867
24	Soya beans	Kg	-	1,800	2,250	2,500	1,700
25	Supper rice	Kg	3,400	3,600	3,400	3,800	3,367
26	Tilapia	Whole	-	1,900	16,500	11,833	17,667
27	Turkey	Bird	-	-	-	-	46,667
28	Unprocessed cotton	Kg	-	10,000	-	-	-
29	Unprocessed honey	Kg	-	2,650	-	17,500	-
30	Unprocessed vanilla	Kg	-	-	-	-	4,000
31	Upland rice.	Kg	3,200	3,000	-	3,233	3,133

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