Follow up

My recent worry : rain

This year, it rains really little...

My women are crying every day about it.

Nothing grows well, maize, millet...

I went to see the situation and the effects of their compost at several women's field.

Millet field

Can you see the difference between right and left ?

Right : without fertilizer

Left : with compost

Peanuts field

Apparently peanuts can grow in any type of soil so the difference is less visible usually but...

Without compost

With compost

When I went to another woman's field (one hour from my house and the half of the way was in sand... how many times I almost felt over...),

She started putting dead wood which was piled next to her field on her bicycle.

I said, "me too !"

She looked at me like saying "no, you aren't able to..."

I insisted "No problem !"

Here you go :)

Of course, I had only thin wood while she carried heavy one but without any problem I delivered it to her house.。

Note : we were in a classified forest but we didn't take wood cut illegally (I think...)

She got an encouraging promis from her neighbor :

"Next year I will buy your compost" (because he saw its effect at her field).

Great news :)

On the way to see another woman's field, she showed me repeating "this is not good !"

A farmer's field

Can you see them ?

So dark black soil...

This is not "fertilizer", but it is for him...

Next to the plant, there were medical bottles and batteries...

Many farmers bring the town wastes as fertilizer which were left at the border of the forest and residencial area to their field.

I didn't even touch them to show them clearly on the photos.

It seems like they were there on purpose...

She told me that some leaves of the plant were yellow, which is not good.

I was very shocked to see it.

At the same time, however I was happy.

Because she knows now that bringing wastes directly to fields is not good through discussions that we had during the workshop.

I hope that hygiene (solid waste management) promotion and compost production widespreads little by little like this among the women and even further...

But right now above all, rain is the matter !