BUV Used for Maize Transport
Agriculture is the backbone of Malawi. It is a land locked country centrally positioned on the surface of the African continent. It has a population of 13.5 million people. While a stretch of the population near the lake shore depends on cassava as its main food, and the rest of the nation has varied amounts [...]
BUV Goes From Logs, to Food, to People
Imagine… …cutting wood for the fire to prepare breakfast, then having to carry it for 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile on your head back to your home. …walking far up the mountain to cultivate your family farm plot, while carrying a baby on your back and a heavy hoe over your shoulder. …walking to [...]
Third V-Tractor Begins Field Cultivation
Malawi’s Vice President Admires V-Tractor Tribal Chief Mdelakwanda, the traditional authority over a number of fishing villages in Senga Bay, Malawi, looks on in amazement at a unique tractor design that exists no place else on earth except Malawi. Not only is he surprised and puzzled by this exclusive farm tractor, the same surprise and [...]
Strange thing – November Maize
So Strange in November Thondwe, Malawi … There is nothing unusual with seeing a field of ripened corn this time of year, since October and November are the harvest time in the mid-western part of the United States. The fact that makes it so unusual is this scene is not in the United States, it [...]
The V-Tractor Update
The V-Tractor is Hard at Work Like many parts of Malawi, the area around Thondwe (in the southern part of the nation) is extremely rich with natural resources. Trees, hills, animals, water, and much more are all naturally a part of daily life for the people around Thondwe and the Namikango Mission and Maternity Hospital. [...]
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