Shamba Shape Up : Series 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1 - Ep 4: Bananas, Chickens, Fruit Trees
Arthur seeks advice from the SSU team on his banana crop, broiler chickens, and pest control for his fruit trees.
Shamba Shape Up : Series 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1 - Ep 10: Silage, Bananas, Sweet Potatoes
On today's shamba shape up we learn how to make Silage, Planting Bananas and sweet potatoes, the importance of using gutters and learn the Push-Pull method for Napier grass and Maize plant.
Shamba Shape Up : Series 5 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 5 - Ep 14: Tissue Culture Banana, Soil Test, Farmer Groups, Dairy Cows
We are in Kirinyaga county at Hellen's farm. We see how to grow Tissue culture bananas, the importance of soil testing, farmer groups and how to improve her dairy cows.
Shamba Shape Up : Series 5 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 5 - Ep 21: Apples, Tissue Culture Banana, Dairy Cows, Soil test
We are in Eastern Uganda, Busoga region at Christopher and Christine's farm. We help them with their cows, bananas and teach them about growing apples and the importance of soil testing.
Shamba Shape Up Season 7 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 7 - Ep 3: Maize, Bananas, Fertilisers and Solar power
We are in Busia County at Crescent and Evelyn Joya's Shamba.We look at how to handle MLND disease in maize an the use of certified seeds when planting for high yield. We also have a look at his bananas which are infected by nematodes, introduce him to plant specific fertilizers and a Solar home system.
Shamba Shape Up Season 7 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 7 - Ep 21: Value Addition, Farmer Groups, Bananas
We are in Kajiado county visiting Joseph and Esther. We look at improving milk transport for their farmers group with the Bolero milk body and value addition to improve their profits. We also introduce them to crop specific fertilisers for bananas and an energy saving jiko for their kitchen.
Shamba Shape Uganda Season 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1-Ep 1(UG): Dairy, Soil test, Banana, Crop Rotation and Vegetables
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Today we’re in Kirangira Village, Mukono central and we’re meeting with farmer Dorothy Nakalembe.
Dorothy’s a very experienced lady who’s been farming since 1980. She has a 3-acre farm where she grows bananas, maize and vegetables .She also has cows but she needs expert advice on them and of course for her vegetables.
This is one farmer who knows what she wants!
In this farm we are learning about:
1. Dairy breeding, nutrition and hygiene
2. What to plant after Clearing Banana plantation
3. Soil testing on banana plantation
4. Vegetables transplanting and good farming practices
Shamba Shape Uganda Season 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1-Ep 2(UG): Soil test, Pest & Diseases, Coffee, Bananas and OFSP
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Today we’re in Bulika village in Mukono and we’re visiting farmer Olivia Kiwombeeka. A very hard-working lady and mother to 14 children. She has a 4-acre farm where she grows coffee, bananas, sweet potatoes, cassava, beans! And don’t forget the cows, the pigs, the goats, the chicken, the pigeons!!!
Where does she find the energy???
In this farm we are learning about:
1. Soil fertility and manure drying and soil testing
2. Pests and diseases control in Coffee plantation
3. Bananas: Good farming practices
4. Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes
Shamba Shape Uganda Season 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1-Ep 3(UG): Cabbage, Water harvest, Soil test, Poultry hygiene & Banana
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Today we’re in Kirowoza Village, in Mukono and we’re visiting farmers Moses and Miriam Sabika and their family on their one-and-a-half-acre farm “Momisa”.
“Momisa” for Moses and Miriam, I guess! Our farmers have four children and eight grandchildren and they all love farming.
One daughter is trying her hand at rearing rabbits; the grandchildren are taking care of the pigs and I’m sure the twins will end up farming too. But, where does this passion come from?
In this farm we are learning about:
1. Water harvesting and Cabbages
2. Soil testing
3. Poultry hygiene
4. Bananas good farm management
Shamba Shape Uganda Season 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1-Ep 4(UG): Coffee, Soil testing, Cow nutrition and Bananas
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We’re in Lutego village, in Mukono and we’re here to meet with a very hard-working farmer, Daoudi Lugasa and his wife Nanfuka.
Yes but, Nanfuka does have a shop, which got me all confused! In fact, Daoudi is the proud owner of 6 acres of land, where he grows mainly coffee and bananas, and maize and avocados he’s got cows and chicken.
Yes, but half of his land is allocated to coffee!
In this farm we are learning about:
1. Coffee: Good farming practices and pests and diseases control
2. Soil testing
3. Cow nutrition
4. Bananas good farming practices
Shamba Shape Uganda Season 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1 - Ep 9(UG): Maize, Push & pull, Bananas, Cattle and Coffee
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Today we’re in Kirumba village in Masaka and we’re visiting farmers Joseph Asimwe and Stephen Begumisa, very successful farmers.
Joseph used to be an accountant, but at retirement he became a full-time farmer.
And he takes farming very seriously! He started off with 6 acres and now owns 89 acres of land and he’s still counting. Farming is a business for him!
Joseph grows coffee of course and it’s his main livelihood, he also grows bananas & beans, has planted trees, pasture for his 30 heads of cattle, 20 acres of maize which can bring him up to 50 tons in a good season
That’s when his maize is not attacked by a dreaded pest…
So, let’s first take a look at that!
In this farm we learn about:
1) Maize: Push and pull against Fall Army Worm
2) Bananas: pest and diseases
3) Spraying and deworming cattle
4) Coffee – Pest and diseases
Shamba Shape Uganda Season 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1 - Ep 10(UG): In calf cow and hygiene, Coffee, Bananas, Goats
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We’re in Bugana village in Masaka and we’re visiting farmer Immaculate Nalubujje
Clearly a very hard-working farmer, since she’s even constructing a new house from the proceeds of her garden and she only started commercial farming ten years ago!
Immaculate has 4 acres of land, she has intercropped coffee and banana on 3.5 acres, has 5 goats but wants many more and a cow that’s going to give birth in two months.
But does she have any challenges?
Let’s find out
In this farm we learn about:
1) Management of in calf cow and hygiene
2) Management of coffee
3) Bananas management for more production
4) Goats’ supplementation and deworming
Shamba Shape Uganda Season 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1 - Ep 15(UG): Heifer management, Tomatoes, Peppers & Banana wilt
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The owner of this beautiful place is Alex Ochieng who’s been a full-time farmer since 1997. He’s 46 years old… can you believe it he was only 21 when he started farming!
On his 10 acres of land, Alex grows bananas of course and Coffee too of course... we’re in Uganda, so it’s a must!
Tomatoes and peppers and he’s got a water tank and an irrigation system for his vegetables and bananas and then cows.
On this farm we learn about:
1) Heifer management
2) Tomatoes production
3) Pepper management
4) Banana bacterial wilt
Shamba Shape Uganda Season 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1 - Ep 18(UG): Dairy cows, Bananas and Orange-Fleshed sweetpotato
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This week we’re in Kiroba Village in Kamuli District and we are here to meet farmer Naomi Namugombe
Naomi and her husband have a couple of enterprises on their 40 acres. They have 6 cows, 25 pigs, 3 goats and they grow bananas, maize, sweet potatoes. Oh! They also grow bracharia and some fodder trees
We want to find out how they do this and what challenges they have on their Shamba.
In this farm we learn about:
1) DAIRY:
• Mastitis Causes and treatment
• Artificial Insemination (Girolando breeds)
2) BANANAS: Cleaning suckers and how to deal with termites
3) OFSP: Introduction to Orange-fleshed sweetpotato and products
Shamba Shape Uganda Season 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1 - Ep 19(UG): Coffee, Maize Push & Pull, Banana and Beans
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This week we’re in Katuba village in Iganga and we’re visiting Stephen Kakuma, a farmer and a trainer of good agronomic practices for coffee.
Stephen Kakuma is 46 years old and father of 10 children. He says he “needs” more. He has 7 acres of land on which he grows coffee (4 acres), bananas (1 acre) and maize (2 acres). He wants to increase his coffee to 7 acres so that he can go commercial. Last season he harvested about 1600kgs. Stephen has been trained by Café Africa and A2N and he is a trainer himself. But he still has challenges, especially with the black coffee twig borer. Although he knows what he has to do, the pest keeps coming back from his neighbours’ plantations. He talks to them but improvement is very slow. He also has an unknown pest that is affecting the bottom of the tree in the rainy season.
Wants to focus more on goats rather than dairy
The other challenges on his farm include the banana bacterial wilt and FAW on the maize.
He has 1 cow and three goats, but he wants to focus more on goats rather than dairy because they’re easier to keep.
In this farm we learn about:
1) Coffee: Pest and diseases plus raising awareness
2) Maize Fall Army Worm Push and Pull
3) Matoke management: Banana bacterial wilt
4) Iron rich bean varieties
Shamba Shape Uganda Season 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1 - Ep 22(UG): Coffee and Banana management, Maize and Sukuma Wiki
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This week we’re in Kawete village in Iganga and we’re visiting Our lively farmer Paul Igulo, who is 71 years old, but he can give youngsters a run for their money when it comes to energy. Paul has always been a farmer; it was practically decided for him from birth!
We’re here to shape up his 20-acre farm. Where he grows anything that you can plant: Coffee, maize, Cocoa, vanilla, g/nuts, bananas, cabbage, green pepper, Sukuma, eggplant, pawpaw, oranges, avocado you name it.
In this farm we will focus on the following Item:
1) Coffee: management (weeds, stumps)
2) Bananas: new varieties
3) Maize: new varieties and weeds
4) Sukuma wiki (varieties, management)
Shamba Shape Up - Short Clips - Shamba Shape Up Clips - Intercropping Banana Plants and Sweet Potatoes
Intercropping Banana Plants and Sweet Potatoes
