Due to the large file size, the annual report 2013 is split in 5 subsequent sections. annual report 2013 part 1 (intro) annual report 2013 part 2 (agriculture) annual report 2013 part 3 (health) annual report 2013 part 4 (education) annual report 2013 part 5 (village economics)
Heavy rainfall washes away the vegetable seeds and/or damages the crops. Rain shelters can be the solution for that. In Lurang two proper rain shelters were built by the gardeners with assistance of the ComDev agriculture officer. Thick transparent plastic was imported from Semarang. Bamboo and wood were used to support the plastic. In the […]
Wetar during the monsoon season The monsoon season on Wetar – from January to mid-March – is particular hard for the villagers on the North Coast of the island because of the high waves smashing onto the beach, making boat transportation impossible. Trading with the outside world decreases to zero, public passengers boats stop coming […]
USING MEDIA IN A LEARNING PROCESS FOR ELEMENTARY AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN LURANG, WETAR, SOUTH WEST MALUKU, PROVINCE OF MALUKU The training of ‘media usage’ in teaching-learning process which is given by Education Specialist of Community Development for Kindergarten, Elementary and Junior High School teachers is aimed to motivate the teachers to use a […]
Tomato-F1 ‘Waad Rijk Zwaan’- Experiment in Wetar, MBD – November 2012 Waad Rijk Zwaan kindly made available four cultivars/lines (refer table below) for testing purposes on Wetar Island in Maluku Barat Daya. Farmer growers and the commercial kitchen who were the main buyers of tomatoes are very happy with these new cultivars, as this very […]
September 5th, 2012 The women active in the test garden in Lurang and their trainer were very proud to harvest the first potatoes ever grown on Wetar. The potatoes seem to be the right variety to grow in tropical low land gardens, close to the ocean: we got nice and firm potatoes with an excellent […]
5 September 2012 Para wanita aktif di kebun tes di Lurang dan pelatih mereka sangat bangga untuk memanen kentang pertama yang pernah ditanam di Wetar. Kentang tampaknya menjadi varietas yang cocok untuk ditanam di daerah tropis dataran rendah, dekat dengan laut: kami mendapatkan hasil kentang yang bagus dengan rasa yang sangat enak! Lahan uji sangat […]