Conservation Farming Capacity Building In Cameroon, Africa

Part Two: Befang (Northwest Region)

ByAllan & Lydia SorflatenIn Collaboration With

Integrated Development Foundation (IDF)Bamenda, Cameroon

Oct.- Dec./2012

Befang Farmer Field School (At Joseph Tafrey’s)(Befang Village/North of Bamenda Near Wum)

Objective of the One Day Befang Workshop

Befang Program Includes Poster By Poster Discussion of Each Illustrated Conservation Agriculture Poster

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Topic of Contour Cultivation Is of Great Interest

Participants Say “We Must Farm the Hillsides As All of the Better Bottom Lands Are Taken”

All Agree That Contour Cultivation Techniques Must Be Practised!

Befang Ladies With Cassava Stems For PlantingDuring Farm Field School

Laying Out the Site

Digging the Planting Holes

Goat Manure

Field School Exercise to Show Observable Differences Between Sand, Silt and Clay Soil Types in Water Solution

Differences in Settling Rates of Individual Particles of Sand, Silt and Clay Were Able to be Observed

Cassava Stems Planted Upright

Plant Residues From Earlier Cropping/WeedingsSaved For Use as Mulch Around Plantings

These Befang/Menchum Green Valley Farmers Are Doing Hillside Pepper Project As a Cooperative Effort With

Guidance From Joseph Tafrey

The Mulch From Previous Growth is Abundant

The Tanks, Hoses and Watering Cans Now Assure The Needed Supply of Water in Dry Season

Plants Are Being Cultivated Across the Contour of Slope

This is Start of Dry Season and Pepper Seedlings Are Just Beginning to Thrive

Improved Outlook For Menchum Green Valley Famers

Conservation Farming

Cameroon

End of Part Two