By Nicholas Syano | CEO & Founder
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INTRODUCTION
Dryland Natural Resources Centre (DNRC) is once again happy to share this progressive report on Moringa to support Kenyan farmers health and wealth project.This project promotes moringa oleifera planting among DNRC farmers for domestic consumption for nutrition and also for sale of the seeds and leaves for income. This project is aimed at achieving DNRC main objectives of environmental regeneration, social regeneration and economical economical regeneration.To this end,during this reporting period and under this project, we were involved in training farmers on how to plant and manage moringa trees, buying of farmers moringa leaves for drying and powering and packaging for sale for income and buying of seeds for moringa oil extraction and propagation of moringa seedlings for planting during the rainy seasons.Below are more detailed activities during the reporting quarter.
TRAINING AND FOLLOW-UPS
During this reporting period, DNRC staff incharge of the outreach and training were busy training especially newly recruited farmers on moringa tree management for better production. The outreach personnel were also busy doing individual farmer follow- ups especially to identify the survival rate of the newly planted moringa and room for expansion.
SOURCING MORINGA SEEDS FOR OIL PRESSING
Within this three months period, DNRC managed to source over 1300kgs of moringa seeds. The seeds were also pressed for oil and a total of 180 kgs of moringa oil was processed.
PROPAGATION OF MORINGA SEEDLINGS
DNRC managed to propagate a total of 7,179 moringa seedlings which were all issued to our now over 900 smallholder farmers to plant during this November December rains.Moringa seedlings are issued with other tree species for biodiversity.
HARVESTING OF MORINGA LEAVES, DRYING AND PROCESSING POWDER
During the reporting period, DNRC staff were involved in buying and receiving Moringa leaves, drying them and processing into powder. 20 kg of moringa powder were processed during this period.
FOCUS FOR THE NEXT QUARTER
By Nicholas Syano | CEO & Founder
By Nicholas Syano | CEO & Founder
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