Collection of Data
In the following week each household will be instructed on how to monitor the expenses and the income of each farm. For this, new forms were developed. Raju Ghising, a young Nepalese who lives near Kaule, will coordinate the collection of data during the next three months for which he will receive a small fee . He will make weekly visits to the participating households and will make sure that the data is collected in a comparable way. After the end of the project this data shall show the range of increase in income through agroforestry as well as the range of decrease of overhead expenses.
Next week Kaule e.V. will hand out scales to the farmers with which the harvest will be weighed. This data shall also serve to compare the amounts of harvest before and after the project has been carried through.
Kaule e.V. has made a list of the cultivated plants and trees and has searched for further possibilities for cultivated plants. Thus, together with the GPS data the reconstruction plans for next year’s workload can be finished.
