Organizational Context
Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is an important food grain legume in the Northern highlands of Tanzania. It serves as a subsistence crop for dietary nutrition and small surplus is marketed. It can also improve soil fertility through N2-fixation. Maize is the staple food crop and together with common bean they account for over 80% of food crops produced in Hai district but their yields are very low because of poor soil fertility and low or no use of fertilizers. The main research question addressed in the current research project is to investigate whether the poor soil fertility in Hai district could be overcome through intensification of common bean production to increase N2-fixation. This is through rotations and/or intercropping of maize with different varieties of common bean. Seeding rate and spatial arrangements of maize with improved and local arrangements such that plant population is not altered will be evaluated. It is expected that soil fertility and crop yields will be improved differently in common bean cropping systems and spatial arrangements. Improved variety of common bean is expected to demonstrate a threefold increase in yield because of good vigour and resistance to diseases compared with local variety.
Roles
To provide daily guidance pertaining to progress of field work, compilation of the data, analysis of the data, write-up, smoothening the entire research activity, and to provide recommendations on the reputable journals for publication, and need for presentations in workshops, conferences, seminars, symposia, etc,
The data is collected by me PhD candidate in collaboration with trained personnels.
Me PhD candidate is to analyse the data.
Short and long term storage
All data will be stored on my local harddisk in a folder called Thesis.
Within this Thesis folder, I'll create per chapter the folders: Data, Model, Paper and Scripts. The Data folder has two sub-folders called: Raw and Processed.
Folder contents:
- Data - Raw sub-folder: Contains all raw data and meta-data (a description of your data).
- Data - Processed sub-folder: Contains all processed data.
- Model folder: Complete listing of the model and the model results & analysis.
- Paper folder: Text of a chapter / paper.
- Scripts folder: Contains all scripts used.
The complete content of my local Thesis folder will be stored on the backup server of PPS.
During periods I'm abroad, I'll backup the complete content of my local Thesis folder to a Dropbox Thesis folder and share the contents with my supervisor(s).
All field and lab data related to crop performance, yield, N2 fixation and soil ferility, farmers'impression on the diversification of the cropping practices will be stored.
No research data will be excluded for long term storage. This is a field work so samples will be kept in the archive for inference in cases similar studies are conducted in line with the current study.
Sharing and Ownership
The data and scientific information generated from the study will be shared for outreach through podcasters, posters, paper publications etc
Will be acced from PPS and the N2Africa Project which retains the the copyright of the whole work.
Only N2Africa Project under Ken Giller
All rights remain solely for the N2Africa Project
Trained persons in the field and labs
Supervisors and Statistician from PPS are the key persons in the clarity of the analysed data
Every pertinent information is communicated to Ken Giller who is my Promoter and the Founder of N2Africa Project.