Productive Garden Water Project Procurement in Lidamanu Village

By jerrybrand,

The location of productive garden is higher than the location of spring source. Therefor, to irrigate the water from the spring to the garden, hydram technology is used under a consideration of low operational fund.

Installation steps of Hydram pump project ;

  1. Measuring the distance between spring source and productive garden.
  2. Measuring the elevation from spring source and productive garden
  3. Water need  Volume.

Hydram Pump installation project is started shortly after learning all the steps above. All these process involve local community (32 members of productive garden). This hydram project can fulfill 1,3 acre of productive garden  water need .

 

 

Unused spring in Lidamanu Village

 

Irrigation Canal in Lidamanu Village

 

Hydram Pipe

 

Hydram Pump Installation Process

 

 

Hydram Pump Installation Process

 

Productive Garden Water Tank

 

The watering of horticultural plants using water from hydram pump

Productive Garden

By jerrybrand,

TLM Foundation invited local community to transform unproductive garden into productive garden to be an additional income source for them.

Productive garden in Lidamanu village was named “Sanga Sodak” which means “Searching for Life” and has 16 family heads as members.

The productive garden begun to be processed since 2017 by planting onions, garlic, green beans, yardlong beans, cos lettuce, water spinach and chili.

All the plant  were planted organically  making them are safe to consume and good to sell.

 

 

Unused land in Lidamanu Village

 

Productive Garden Group Forming

 

Placing mulches on the furrows

 

The watering of horticultural plants

 

The watering of horticultural plants

 

 

Development of Home Industry

By admintlm,

TLM Foundation has been assisting Nekmese Village, South Amarasi Sub-district, Kupang District, through the Foundation’s assisted village community development program since 2016. The existing development programs are productive gardens, village and community governance training on Village Law No. 6 2014, and community training. One of the activities in the community training program is the development of home industries targeting housewives who have potential to produce horticultural products such as chili, banana, corn etc. The purposes of this activity are; to improve the skills of housewives’ horticultural products management, to create a home-based industry by groups, and increase income and local ecomony.
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Kiubaat Productive Plantation

By admintlm,

One of the biggest problems faced by residents of Kiubaat village is the lack of a reliable livelihood. Most people rely on traditional farming techniques to plant rice and corn during the rainy season (December – March). However, these crops can only be harvested once a year. Outside of the rainy season, most people will take on odd jobs in order to earn an income, but usually there is not enough work to ensure basic needs.

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