Forage, Data Collection and Soil Water Management Training - Babati, Tanzania by africarising ● portfotolio

africarising: Farmers practically participating in counting of tillers of the forage stems as one of the procedures in harvesting (Photo credit: IITA/Gloriana Ndibalema)

africarising: The extension officer, Benard Sambali and a farmer discussing about the vegetables that are integrated in one of the fodder demonstration sites in Long Village (Photo credit: IITA/Gloriana Ndibalema)

africarising: Fred Kizito collects data from the weather station installed courtesy of Africa RISING in Long village (Photo credit: IITA/Gloriana Ndibalema)

africarising: Gabriel Sikay (right) and a fellow farmer take notes during the on-farm training on forage data collection and soil water management (Photo credit: IITA/Gloriana Ndibalema)

africarising: Forage leaves and stems are usually measured as part of the data collection process during harvesting (Photo credit: IITA/Gloriana Ndibalema)

africarising: Benard Sambali, an extension officer in Babati District takes part in a practical activity on weighing forage leaves. (Photo credit: IITA/Gloriana Ndibalema)

africarising: Farmers separate forage leaves from the stems (Photo credit: IITA/Gloriana Ndibalema)

africarising: Remijus Kamala explains to the participants how the rain gauge works (Photo credit: IITA/Gloriana Ndibalema)

africarising: Benard Sambali, an extension officer who took part in the training is assisted by one of trainers, Gregory Sikumba (ILRI) to take measurements of a harvested forage stem (Photo credit: IITA/Gloriana Ndibalema)

africarising: David Ngunga (ILRI) elbaorates a point to the farmers and extension officers attending the training (Photo credit: IITA/Gloriana Ndibalema)

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africarising: Group photo of the participants and trainers at the forage data collection and soil water management training (Photo credit: IITA/Gloriana Ndibalema)

africarising: This must be very important!Farmers and extension officers who took part in the training found aspects of data collection quite interesting (Photo credit: IITA/Gloriana Ndibalema)

africarising: A farmer reads the measurements of the forage harvest on a weighing scale (Photo credit: IITA/Gloriana Ndibalema)

africarising: Some of the extension agenets who took part in the forage data collection and soil water management training (Photo credit: IITA/Gloriana Ndibalema)