Changing Village Mentality

Learning to measure mass on a weighing scale

With the mentality of carting away the nation's resources cutting across political, religious and business classes, teaching genuine business and financial models is a big project on its own. Corrupt practices permeates the fabric of many uncultured Nigerians and, as a form of energy, manifest itself in different forms. If you happen to do business with such uncultured practitioners, you must purge the filth from them in order to fill them with the delicacy. This is a task that must be done in and around our village to pave way for a smooth and successful running of the Akwamfon Sustainable Agriculture and Community Education initiative (ASACEI). As a solution, the people need another phase of education than the traditional. With the help of this farming project, we believe we are equal to the task anyway. We hope to change any evil status quo and leave a good legacy in place.

The students’ long vacation has come and gone but not much was done as expected due to too much rainfall in August and the first two weeks of September. Nevertheless the students were engaged in the harvest, measuring and selling of Garden Eggs that thrived well during the heavy rainfall. Some students went on market survey for the fruits. On the other hand, we continued treating them to our Stop Back Literacy project.

Now that the rains are subsiding, the students are going to be engaged in composting and pineapple planting before dry season sets in. Meanwhile dry season farming on certain crops is being researched. The result of the research by an undergraduate on the possibility of planting maize thrice a year was successful. Everything being equal, we now know that maize can be planted and harvested three times a year. Termite attack was observed during the period and the way out found. How to boost time of Pineapple’s fruiting is also discovered through experiment. This is being used to predict planting and harvest time to sell the products in off-season to maximize profit.

Bundles of fluted pumpkin leaves for sale