pedagogic resource

MIFACIG Pedagogical Resources

Nursery of 3,700 m2

The main techniques of vegetative propagation used in our nursery are :

· Marcotts air layering

· Bud Grafting

· Rooting of leafy cuttings in non-mist propagators

· Seeds propagation

MIFACIG is equipped with 6 non-mist propagators and 2 giant propagators.

Garden and medicinal plants

Over thirty medicinal plant species cultivated including:
Mountain mint, mountain thyme, mountain majolene, garden thyme, mint, yarrow, plantain, Dandelion, aloeverra, lemon grass, funnel, basilic, Centelia asiatica, ladies mentle, blood tonic one and two, parsley, celery, camomile, artemisia, black jack, Cajanus cajan, Cassia alata, Cayenne peppe, Comfrey, Eucalytus, Euphorbia hirta, ginger, guava, lemon balm, lantana, lemon, pawpaw, pineapple, rosemary, rose periwinkle, african iodine

Livestock

Piggery:

The Center has also a piggery of 10 compartments which can shelter ten pigs and their piglets. We produced about 90 to 100 piglets per year.

The piggery also serves the dual function of producing manure which is used in the nursery for the amelioration of the nursery soil for improved plant production and integration in farms

Apiary

The apiary of the Centre consists of 50 Kenyan hives which has a production capacity of about 500 liters of honey per year and at least 20 to 50 kg of wax. MIFACIG is promoting bee-keeping and bee-loving trees as well as sales of honey by-products.

Demonstration plots

Thanks to the different methods of tree domestication, MIFACIG is able to show how much this techniques can be successfully integrated in farming systems using our demonstration farm located at our resource center.

Twantoh Mixed Farming Common Initiative group MIFACIG-RESOURCE CENTER

Motto: sharing trees and plants that serve life

· For farmers

· Infrastructure

· Pedagogic resource

· Garden clubs