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Passion Fruit

Know Zone — Welcome to Shamba Shape Up Uganda!
We’re in Bukalasa village in Masaka and today our farmers are Juliet Nakalemba and her brother Stephen Kiseka Naboke.
Juliet is a writer and a secretary and Stephen used to work in electronics until covid struck. The family has 6 acres of land and their father has given them four acres for their projects
Farming is in the blood of the siblings, but now they want to go commercial. They have planted 1000 coffee trees togetherJuliet wants to start a piggery and Stephen is passionate about passion fruit and has two plantations.
Juliet finances the project and Stephen manages the farm, but it’s not as easy as it sounds.
In this farm we are learning about:
1. How to manage Young Coffee plantation
2. How to protect pigs from swine fever
3. Passion fruit farming
4. Basics of bookkeeping

More on Passion Fruit

Shamba Shape Uganda Season 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1- Ep 8(UG): Pigs, Coffee, Passion Fruit and Financial Literacy

Welcome to Shamba Shape Up Uganda!

We’re in Bukalasa village in Masaka and today our farmers are Juliet Nakalemba and her brother Stephen Kiseka Naboke.

Juliet is a writer and a secretary and Stephen used to work in electronics until covid struck. The family has 6 acres of land and their father has given them four acres for their projects

Farming is in the blood of the siblings, but now they want to go commercial. They have planted 1000 coffee trees togetherJuliet wants to start a piggery and Stephen is passionate about passion fruit and has two plantations.

Juliet finances the project and Stephen manages the farm, but it’s not as easy as it sounds.

In this farm we are learning about:

1. How to manage Young Coffee plantation

2. How to protect pigs from swine fever

3. Passion fruit farming

4. Basics of bookkeeping

Shamba Shape Uganda Season 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1 - Ep 14(UG): Coffee, Maize, Push & pull and Passion fruits

Welcome to Shamba Shape Up Uganda!

We’re in Walukoto village in Mayuge and we’re visiting Hussein Buyiima and his family on their farm. This is a very close-knit family!

At 54 years of age, Hussein is the proud owner of 11 acres. In addition, he also takes care of his father’s 8-acre farm.

Hussein grows many crops: coffee, cocoa, passion fruits, maize, beans and cassava tomatoes, green pepper and avocados.

His wife Hajira is exclusively in charge of the cassava and beans. The rest is on Hussein, but the crops that he really likes are coffee and passion fruit and maize is of course a must for food security, so we’ll focus on these three crops!

In this farm we are learning about:

1) Coffee harvest + checking market prices on app.

2) Maize varieties

3) Maize push and pull method against fall armyworm

4) Passion fruit: Pests and diseases