Sunrise over Lake Kilimbi and the campus of the Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture. January 15, 2020.Students arrived back from their holiday break on January 5, with Term 2 classes beginning January 6, 2020. These two students are walking to a meeting in Muduha Hall Friday evening, January 10.RICA students now are able to begin using land around their First Year Farm houses for crop production in their Practical Farming course. Here students are delineating boundaries for what will become their drip-irrigated production area adjacent to Ihema House. January 10, 2020.A Purple-Crested Turaco in a tree adjacent to our house. This is the national bird of the Kingdom of Swaziland. January 5, 2020.A pair of Purple-Crested Turacos. January 11, 2020. A Bronze Mannikin. January 11, 2020.First use of our new microscopes, in RICA’s newly completed Biology Lab. January 14, 2020.One of the advantages of having RICA’s campus under construction is that there are many areas of soil excavation, which are great for teaching soils. Here Dr. Ayuke, RICA’s Soil Management Instructor and Conservation Agriculture Thread Coordinator, describes soil horizons to students in a lab section of his Soil Management class. January 16, 2020.My bicycle, alongside those of construction workers who have just arrived for work, after an early morning ride. January 15, 2020.Colorful sunrises/sunsets seem to not be common, at least so far. This sunrise is from what will be the RICA campus center roundabout. January 10, 2020.
3 thoughts on “Observations from Rwanda: January 17, 2020”
Beautiful photos once again. I particularly love the birds. The Ag pictures make me want to plan out my garden and make me thankful for my good soil and water!
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Beautiful photos once again. I particularly love the birds. The Ag pictures make me want to plan out my garden and make me thankful for my good soil and water!
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Great update! I loved the pictures!
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It is great to view this wonderful picture
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