TALEKOI - The availability of healthy food at the household level is vital to ensure everyone meets their nutritional needs. However, in Talekoi village - with the ban on burning - the people cannot farm and have a hard time getting vegetables for their families. For this reason, the Ranu Welum team empowers the people of Talekoi village to develop home gardens in their yards.
A few months ago, we started to teach villagers, especially women, to use organic waste that is not utilized in the village to make fertilizer and planting media. The purpose of the training was to be a means of broadening the insight and knowledge of villagers about environmentally friendly technologies that exist around the yard of the house. Not only did they get material from the agricultural extension coordinator, but they also immediately started practicing. Villagers also received a variety of seedlings. The types of plants that we provide are ginger, chili, kale, petai, cinnamon, soursop, rambai, and durian. In total there are 700 tree seedlings. We also provided 100 packs of kale seeds.
“In the future, we will add more types of plants. For the initial stage, we apply chilies first," concluded Sumarni Laman. After 2 months since the last training, the chili and vegetable seeds owned by the residents are now fertile.
“Now the chili tree that I have is growing well. I can't wait for it to bear fruit”, said Ineh Moreno, one of the villagers who took part in the training.
Chief of the women group, Lelianti, showed the ginger she planted two months ago in poly bag contained soils mixed with manure. It grows very well. “I hope women in this village can grow ginger and other spices plants in their homes. it will helps providing us with our need for cooking.” (Sumarni)
