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PARTNER MONTHLY REPORT

NAME OF PARTNER: ZEST VSO/UWAMWIMA REPORTING MONTH: August/ September PARTNER REPORTING MANAGER: Brian M Touray TAPP TECHNICIAN: Omar Mohamed

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1. SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES IMPLEMENTED THIS REPORTING PERIOD (In bullet form and should reflect Partner agreement and work plan) Total of 26 VICOBAS groups, as result of the circulating 7,400.000 (more profits are being made) 7,400.000 (Seven Million Four Hundred Thousand shillings) of the VICOBAS Revolving funds disbursed. Encourage farmers to utilize the crates provided by FINTRAC to minimize post-harvest loss, so far it has proven to be working well. Held couple of seminars with the VICOBAS group to advise them on how the VICOBAS Revolving funds works and to make good use of the money for sustainability purposes. Held an Information Sharing Stakeholders Workshop to discuss synergy between partners and stakeholders, plus how to improve market linkage and production. About 30 partners and stakeholders participated in the workshop.

2. OUTPUTS FOR EACH ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTED (Please fill the part which is appropriate for your project) 2.1 TRAINING, WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES

Main theme of training, seminar, conference or workshop done in this reporting period Village community banking recording skills

Number of People Reached or involved M F Youth(<35) 18 44 6

Total Amount Spent for the activity (US $)

Stakeholder Information Sharing Workshop

22

Funds from Cordaid

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2.2

DEMONSTRATIONS (New Demonstration Sites Established)

Location

Number of Type of Crop Demo Plots

Type of Technology demonstrated (State not more than 3)

2.3

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND ADOPTION-See below for example of type of technologies)

Type of Technology Introduced

Area (HA)

Raised bed nursery and row planting

1.5

Number of Farmers Actually Adopting M F Youth(<35) 4 8 3

2.4

INVESTMENTS (State Any equipments purchased for the project or supplied by partner to farmers or bought by target farmers as a result of TAPP intervention)See notice below

Value (US$) Type of Investment TAPP Investment Partner TSH. Investment 668,000 Farmers Investment

4 MONEY MAKER PUMPS

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CROP PRODUCTION 2.5.1 Planting Type of Crop

2.5

Number of Farmers planted this month M F Youth(<35)

Estimated Area of Production (Ha)

2.5.2 Type of Crop

Harvesting Number of Farmers Harvested this month M F 18 Youth(<35) 3 Estimated Area of Production (Ha) 4 900 kg Quantity of Produce harvested

TOMATO

EGG PLANT GREEN PEPPER

2 3

1 1

2 2.5

200 kg 200 kg

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Type of Crop Supplied

MARKET STRENGTHENING 2.6.1 Markets Linkage Number of Quantity Value in Beneficiaries/P of TSH. roducers Produce Supplied M F Youth by farmers

2.6

Quantit y of Produce Exporte d

Value in $

Type of Market Linked to (Please tick)

Local

Regional

Export

Buying Agent (If new please state)

TOMATO

18

754 kgs

377,000

EGG PLANT

111 kgs

57,900

GREEN PEPPER

152kgs

272,200

3. ANY CHALLENGES FACED BY PARTNER IN IMPLEMENTATION OF PROJECT ACTIVITIES: Most of the farmers do not have capital to invest in their vegetable production Poor seeds Unreliable water supply 4. PLAN FOR THE NEXT MONTH More acreage to be planted Market linkage with hotels Training on collecting information and record keeping

NOTE: Technologies could be Drip irrigation, Raised beds, Crop Rotation, Starter Solution, Hybrid Seeds, Live Barriers, Fertigation, Green House, Nurseries and any other deemed to be a technology in agriculture production

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Investments could be Farm Machinery Equipments, Green house infrastructure, Irrigation equipments, Land Lease/Purchase, Land Preparation, Packaging equipments and materials, Packhouse equipments, packhouse infrastructure, Posts, wires and support materials, Processing plant equipments, processing plant infrastructure, Pruning equipments, Safety equipments, soil analysis, spray equipments, tissue culture, vehicle/transport equipments, water pumps, water tanks, water well or borehole

Name and Signature Authorized Manager: Brian M Touray ZEST Project Manager Brian M. Touray ZANZIBAR ENTERPRISE AND SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DATE: September 30-2011

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